# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shihab-al-din-al-qarafi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:41.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shihab-al-din-al-qarafi"
name: "Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi"
slug: "shihab-al-din-al-qarafi"
description: "Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī, was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Sanhaja Berber origin who lived in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt. He is widely regarded as the foremost Maliki juristconsult and legal theoretician of his time. He was highly proficient in scriptural exegesis, Islamic theology, grammar, lexicography, literature, ophthalmology, astronomy and mathematics. During his lifetime, al-Qarafi was hailed as one of the greatest scholars. He is considered to be one of the prominent influential thinkers and pioneers. According to Ibn Farhun, Shafi'ites and Malikites were unanimous that the best scholars in Egypt were three in number: al-Qarafi in Old Cairo, Ibn al-Munayyir in Alexandria, and Ibn Daqiq al-'Id in Fatimid Cairo. Imam al-Suyuti counted him among the scholars who attained the rank of mujtahid mutlaq."
tagline: "Legal scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al_Qarafi.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1228"
deathDate: "1285"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.646656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "شهاب الدين القرافي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shihab_al-Din_al-Qarafi"
    title: "Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eih%C3%A2b%C3%BCddin_Ahmed_el-Karaf%C3%AE"
    title: "Şihâbüddin Ahmed el-Karafî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%89%DA%BE%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%87%D8%AF%D8%AF%D9%89%D9%86_%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%84%D9%82%DB%95%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%89%D9%8A"
    title: "شىھابۇددىن ئەلقەرافىي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C"
    title: "شہاب دین قرافی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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