Sour judge, governor of Cairo, and agent of the House of Money in Damascus .. 624 years since the death of the Iraqi writer Taj Al-Din Al-Sinjari

From a remote area (northern Iraq), the life of the jurist and linguist, Judge Taj Al-Din Abdullah bin Ali bin Omar Al-Sinjari, began, and then moved between a number of cities.

To take the sciences from the leading scholars, and assumed important positions in Cairo, Damascus and Tire.

On this day, January 29, 1397 AD, Al-Sinjari died in the Syrian city of Damascus, after he stayed there for the end of his life, and he continued to teach at the Maradania School in the Salihiya neighborhood.

His scientific career

Tajuddin was born in the Sinjar region (northern Iraq), in 1322 AD, and studied jurisprudence there, then began his journey to seek knowledge, moving between the cities of Mosul, Erbil, and Mardin, Turkey.

And the professor of modern literary criticism, Dr. Hafez Muhammad Al-Shammari, explains that Al-Sinjari distinguished himself from scholars of his time by being a scientist in various sciences, and that he combined jurisprudence and literature, and had a great stature.

Because of its scientific superiority of the scholars who were contemporary

The professor of modern history, Dr. Muhammad Ali, points to important factors that influenced his upbringing, the most important of which is his belonging to the house of Al-Sinjari and his environment, where he grew up in a house of science and literature, and his family was known for prestige, knowledge and wealth.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he notes that the city of Sinjar is one of the important cities, which has presented many prominent scholars, such as Taqi al-Din, Ali bin Taj al-Din and others.

The biography books mention that Al-Sinjari took his knowledge from the most senior scholars, most notably the scholar Ala al-Din al-Qunawi al-Hanafi in Damascus, the scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Asbahani in Cairo, and Sheikh Izz al-Din Hassan and others.

History professor Muhammad Ali believes that one of the most important factors that influenced the emergence of Taj al-Din is his belonging to the House of Al-Sinjari and his environment (Al-Jazeera)

Distinguished personality and managerial positions

Taj al-Din al-Sinjari's name is included among the names of distinguished people who appeared in our Islamic heritage, who were distinguished by the diversity and sophistication of the achievement, and the multiplicity of talents and scientific and administrative capabilities, according to Dr. Amer Mamdouh, professor of Islamic history at the Iraqi University.

He added to Al-Jazeera Net, when we read in the translation of Al-Sinjari, we find this aspect clear, although the jurisprudential aspect and work in the judiciary are the most prominent.

But there is another aspect, which is his contributions to poetry and literature;

From what you can perceive from the words of his translators, that he was "an imam, a scholar, and a master of jurisprudence, principles, Arabic and language."

He attributes the reason for his distinction to his important travels that gave him the opportunity to receive sciences among several scholars, and he was a deputy in power in Cairo and Damascus, and was the governor of the House of Money Agency in Damascus.

This provided him with the appropriate environment for creativity, until we found him excel in several arts, so he issued a fatwa, taught, classified and worked.

In the same context, Al-Shammari believes that the reason for assigning Al-Sinjari to the important positions comes because he is skilled in leadership, and he has a great deal of responsibility, and for this he took a prominent role in administrative work, in Cairo, Damascus and others.

Regarding the reason for his being called a judge of Sour - Al-Shammari says - that is because he took over the judiciary in the city of Sur in Lebanon, which overlooks the sea and most of its residents are Muslims, and he was a just judge because of his great capabilities in jurisprudence and judiciary rulings.

Poetry and literature

Mamdouh points out that the late had a long tradition in poetry and literature, which is indicated by his books that were based on the system of books, which is the collection and formulation of scientific material on one of the fields of poetry, and the formulation of legal rulings and the rules of the principles of jurisprudence, a balanced formulation, in order to facilitate memorization, and to enable the learner to control the rules Science and its Basics.

Amer Mamdouh, Professor of Islamic History at the Iraqi University: Al-Sinjari's books were distinguished by their comprehensiveness (Al-Jazeera)

Mamdouh expresses his regret.

Because today there is nothing left of Al-Sinjari’s heritage except the titles of his books, and we hardly ever come across a verse that is transmitted in all the books of translations, which is his saying:

Every one of us has a preoccupation for all of us ... I have never experienced anything but issues

And the professor of Islamic history continues his speech by saying that maybe if his books were appreciated and found, and investigated, we will examine their contents more accurately.

And he narrates from the biography books as saying that Al-Sinjari kept a lot of stories and anecdotes, and perhaps this is what made him desirable in group sessions, and employing these stories and legacies, to decorate the community and literary councils with them.

His writings

Taj al-Din's books were characterized by diversity and comprehensiveness, and the attempt to mix jurisprudential and legal knowledge, with literary and poetic talent, as well as interest in the ethical aspect, according to Mamdouh.

He believes that this is related to the nature of knowledge that he possessed, the functions he held, and the characteristics that distinguished him, and recorded by historians and writers, for he was a number of notable jurists, and among the advantages of this world is religion, goodness, knowledge and generosity, as described by the historian Ibn Taghri Bardi in his book “The Healing Guide and Al Manhal Net. "

Mamdouh shows that one of the most prominent writings of Taj al-Din, which historians have counted, is “Al-Bahr Al-Hawi fi Al-Fatwa”, in which he compiled the doctrines of the four imams, and the sayings of some of the Companions and Followers.

In addition to “Al-Mukhtar’s Systems” in jurisprudence, “Al-Sarrajiya’s systems” in statutes, and “Silwan Al-Muta'a Systems” by Ibn Zafar, and he has a poem on honorable morals.