Sharaf ad-Din at-Tîbî and His Works

Abstract

Sharaf ad-din at-Tibi had written the first commentary to Mishkat al-Masabih which was classified by Khateeb at-Tabrizi who is one of the authors of the eighth century after Hijra. Tîbî is well-known with the work that he did about al-Keshaf of Zemahshary in additon to the commentary work, named as al-Kaasheef, which he wrote just after the work of his student “Tabrizi”. On the other hand, Tibi had lived and compiled his works in a period which the Islamic world was in crisis in terms of politics and society and that was a period when the activities of Shiite had appeared in and around of Tabriz under the administration of Ilkhanate. Mishkat and the first commentary work written by Tibi are the products of revivification efforts of Sunnah or with Sunnah. This article had been written with the aim of introducing Sharaf ad-Din at-Tibi who defended the Sunnah against bid’ah and the activities of Shia during the reign of Olcaytu Khan in the eighth century after Hijra in Tabriz, and also to introduce his era, teaching activities and works of him.