Author: ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī
Alternate names: ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥawāzin Qushayrī; Abd al-Karim ibn Hawazin Qushayri; Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī; `Abd al-Karĭm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrĭ; ʻAbd al-Karim ibn Huwazin Qushayri; 'Abd al-Karīm ibn Howāzin al-Qushayrī; 'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī; عبدالکریم قُشَیری‎; عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري
Born: 986
Died: 1072
Bio: 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar and theologian, jurist, legal theoretician of the Shafi’i school, mufassir of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master an orator, poet and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences.[3] Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle.[4]