al-Jawnpūrī, Maḥmūd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ahmed, Asad Q.
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Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī al-Fārūqī al-Jawnpūrī (993-1072/1585-1652) was an Indian scholar known primarily for his contributions, in Arabic and Persian, to philosophy (falsafa) , theology (kalām) , and rhetoric (ʿilm al-maʿānī wa-l-bayān). He was born in Jawnpur, in Uttar Pradesh, at the very beginning of Mughal suzerainty in the region. Al-Jawnpūrī received his early training from his grandfather, Shāh Muḥammad al-Jawnpūrī (d. 1032/1622), with whom he studied various books in the emerging curriculum (Lakhnawī, 5:181, 429). He then studied