Zubad al-Ulum wa Sahib al-Mantuq wa al-Mafhum
- Author died
- 909 AH
- Editions
- Markaz al-Kawn
Zubad al-Ulum wa Sahib al-Mantuq wa al-Mafhum (Arabic: زبد العلوم وصاحب المنطوق والمفهوم, lit. 'The Essence of Sciences and the Master of the Explicit and Implicit Meaning') is an encyclopedic compendium by the Damascene Hanbali polymath Ibn al-Mubarrad (840/841–909 AH / 1436/1437–1503 CE) .
Structure and Content
The work is organized into fifty distinct books (kutub) spanning various religious and rational disciplines, reflecting the author's broad engagement across multiple fields of Islamic scholarship .
Author and Context
The author, Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Hasan ibn Abd al-Hadi—commonly known as Ibn al-Mubarrad—was a prominent scholar, jurist, and traditionist based in the al-Salihiyya quarter of Damascus . Born in Damascus in 840 AH (or at the beginning of Muharram 841 AH), he composed hundreds of treatises and compendia covering hadith, jurisprudence, Arabic linguistics, and theology before his death in 909 AH . Zubad al-Ulum wa Sahib al-Mantuq wa al-Mafhum is recorded among his comprehensive encyclopedic works in classical bibliographic sources .
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