AKHBRI SCHOLARS
FROM ASTARBDI TO
THE END OF THE
THIRTEENTH CENTURY
AH
The list below is by no means
comprehensive, and contains only
the most
prominent Akhbri scholars found
in the bio-bibliographical literature.
The nature of biographical
compendia was such that in the
rst
150 years of the Akhbri school,
little reference was made to the
Akhbri (or any other) allegiance
increase in
the number of Akhbris in this list
after Mirz Muhammad al-Akhbri
does not necessarily reflect
increased Akhbri activity. Rather,
it probably
reflects other factors: proximity of
time (and hence greater records
available to the principally modern
biographical works cited here),
a
greater willingness of biographical
writers to identify their fellow
scholars
as Akhbris in the Thirteenth
Century (as compared to the
Eleventh),
and finally a minority loyal to Mirz
Muhammad himself.
Scholars not mentioned elsewhere
Tustari
(d. not known)
Huwayzi
(alive 1079)
Ibrahim b. `Abd Allah alAstarabadi known as al-Khatib
(d. after 1081)
*Muhammad Salih al-Mazandarani
(d. 1081 or 1086)
Muhammad Mumin b. Dawsat (or
D st) al-Astarabadi (d. 1087)
Khalil al-Qazwini
(d.1089)
Muhsin Fayd al-Kashani
(d. 1091)
`Ali Asghar al-Qazwini
(alive 1092)
Radi al-Din al-Qazwini
(d. 1096)
Muhammad Tahir al-Qummi
(d. 1098)
Twelfth Century
Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yusuf alMaqabi al-Bahrani
(d. 1102)
Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Hurr al`Amili
(d. 1104)
Akhbari,
no death date known, was also an
Akhbari (see Tihrani, al-Dhari`a, v.
6, p. 42 and p. 198). The son was
forced to defend his fathers
Akhbarism and `irfani tendencies
(see Tihrani, Tabaqat, v. 6, p. 377).
Nur al-Din b. Ni`mat Allah alJazairi
(d. 1158)
Unknown 12th Century Akhbari,
who wrote an important
commentary on al-Hurrs Hidayat
al-Umma, see Tihrani, al-Dhari`a,
v. 14, p. 172.
Muhammad Ja`far b. Muhammad
Tahir
(born 1080, no death date known,
Thirteenth Century
Muhammad b. `Abd al-Nabi alAkhbari
(d. 1232)
Fath `Ali Zand al-Shirazi
(d. after 1236)
Shaykh al-Husayn b. Muhammad
b. `Ali b. `Aythan (or Ghayshan)
al-Bahrani
Muhammad Ibrahim b.
Muhammad `Ali al-abasi (death
date not known). Another pupil of
Mirza Muhammad al-Akhbari
(Tihrani, al-Dhari`a, v. 21, p. 161
and Tihrani, al-Dhari`a, v. 24, p.
71).
Muhammad Mahdi al-Astarabadi
(d. 1259). An Iranian who moved
to Lucknow.
Hasan b. Husayn b. Muhammad
b. Ahmad al-Darazi al-Bahrani Al`Usfurii (d.1261) a pupil of Fath
`Ali Zand, who died in Bushehr,
and is mentioned in al-Fawaid alShiraziyya (f.123a.5). Composed
various works refuting ijtihad and
defending the Akhbariyya.
`Ali b. Mirza Muhammad alAkhbari (d. 1275). Youngest son of