23 – al-Mutarrizī, Abū l-Fatḥ Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAlī *

The leading Muʿtazilī scholar, Abū l-Fatḥ Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAlī al-Khwarizmī, a Ḥanafī jurist and grammarian, was the author of al-Muqaddima al-Laṭīfa (1).

He was a towering figure in the various branches of literature and an active advocate of Muʿtazilism.

He studied under his own father and under al-Muwaffaq ibn Aḥmad, the preacher of Khwarizm. He also received narrations from Muḥammad ibn Abī Saʿd the merchant and from a number of others.

He left several writings, among them Sharḥ al-Maqāmāt (A Commentary on the Maqāmāt).

Students transmitted from him, and his reputation spread far and wide.

He was born the same year that al-Zamakhsharī died.

He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 610 AH, and more than three hundred elegiac odes were composed for him.

24 – Ghulām Ibn al-Mannī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī **

The eminent scholar, master of legal theory, philosopher, Fakhr al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn.