Ibn Jamāʿa and family - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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El-Merheb, Mohamad
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Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Jamāʿa al-Kinānī al-Ḥamawī (639-733/1241-1333), the first prominent member of the Banū Jamāʿa, a family of Shāfiʿī scholars and Ṣūfīs, was a widely respected Syro-Egyptian Shāfiʿī jurist, chief judge, and Islamic political thinker of the early Mamlūk period (648-922/1250-1517). Members of the family assumed important offices in the seventh/thirteenth to tenth/sixteenth century in Hama, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Cairo. Ibn Jamāʿa was born in Hama, the son of Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm (596-675/1200-77),