Al-Qāḍī Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī al-Bayḍāwī (d. Jumādā I 719/June 1319) was a Shāfiʿī jurist, Ashaʿrī theologian, and Qurʾān commentator who lived in Shiraz and Tabriz. His death date is disputed in the sources and in modern scholarship. For a summary of this debate, see Kohlberg, 15, and van Ess, 261-70 and his biographical sources. 1. Life of al-Bayḍāwī Classical Muslim scholars were far more interested than we are in al-Bayḍāwī's death date, which indicates that he