al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn Abū Naṣr Hibatallāh b. Abī ʿImrān Mūsā b. Dāʾūd al-Shīrāzī (d. 470/1078), was chief dāʿī (agent of the religious, educational, and political mission, the daʿwa ) under the Fāṭimid imām -caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 427-87/1036-94), and he held the rank directly below the imām in the spiritual hierarchy. He was a renowned scholar and poet-his magnum opus is al-Majālis al-Muʾayyadiyya , a compendium of eight hundred lectures on symbolic interpretation (taʾwīl) of the Qurʾān, ḥadīth , and sharīʿa . 1. Life