# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-tahir-isfahani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:28:35.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-tahir-isfahani"
name: "Abu Tahir Isfahani"
slug: "abu-tahir-isfahani"
description: "Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, was one of the leading scholars of hadith in the twelfth century CE. He was an esteemed Shafi'i hadith scholar from Isfahan who taught for many years at the 'Adiliyya madrassa in Alexandria, where he was frequently visited by pupils from all over the Muslim world, including Al-Andalus. He lived to be a hundred years old possessing the world's shortest chains and well known for his great memory and precision."
tagline: "12th-century Islamic scholar"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A.png/330px-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1085"
deathDate: "1180"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             0.3355704697986577
  historical:           9.688842666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Abu Tohir as-Silafiy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أبو طاهر السلفي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابو طاهر السلفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আবু তাহির আস-সিলাফি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abū Tāhir as-Silafī"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Tahir_al-Silafi"
    title: "Abu Tahir al-Silafi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابوطاهر سلفی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abu Tahir al-Silafi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابو طاہر سلفی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Абу Тахир ас-Силафи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BE%D2%B3%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%98%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B0%D2%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D3%A3"
    title: "Абутоҳири Исфаҳонӣ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابو طاہر سلفی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump