Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini


Abū Hafs Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī; aka Sirajuddin was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence. He is a prominent scholars of the famous al-Bulqīnī family, which was an influential dynasty of Shāfiʿī judges, law professors, and administrators in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt. His most important work is entitled Tashih al-Minhaj, an explanation of Al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talibin, a classical manual on Islamic Law according to Shafi'i fiqh.
After his primary education in Egypt, he traveled to Damascus and was appointed as a Mufti. He has also served as a lecturer at Al-Azhar Mosque. He had a vast number of disciples that the entire Egypt following the Shafe`i school had Ulama who were either his own disciples or disciples of his disciples.