al-Kūrānī, Ibrāhīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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El-Rouayheb, Khaled
Leiden
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Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan al-Kūrānī (b. 1025-1101/1616-90) was a pre-eminent Islamic scholar of the eleventh/seventeenth century. His works were known in his lifetime from Morocco to Java and from Istanbul to Yemen. He was an influential apologist for the views of the famous mystic of Andalusian origin Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) and sought to rehabilitate some of the ideas of Ḥanbalī thinkers such as Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350). He was, as indicated