al-Bakrī, Abū l-Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sabra, Adam
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Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Shāfiʿī (898-952/1492-1545) was a leading religious scholar in tenth/sixteenth-century Cairo. He was the son of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī, a religious scholar who had a career in the administration of the Mamlūk state before turning to Ṣūfism under the influence of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Dashṭūṭī (d. 924/1518), a holy fool who enjoyed the respect of the Mamlūk and Ottoman ruling elites. Jalāl al-Dīn administered the religious endowments established