Murtada al-Zabidi


Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī, or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī was an Islamic scholar 1732-1790. He is also the author of the renowned dictionary Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus. His family originated from Wasit in Iraq, from where his parents had emigrated to the Hadramawt region in the east of Yemenwhere the Husaynī tribe is situated. Murtaḍá earned his nisba 'al-Zabīdī' from Zabīd in the south western coastal plains of Yemen, which was a centre of academic learning where he had spent time studying. He died in Egypt during a plague in 1790.
He was affiliated with the Naqshbandi Sufi order. One source says it was the Rifayia Sufi order.

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