al-Asqalani, better known by the honorific name al-Qadi al-Fadil (Arabic: القاضي الفاضل, romanized: al-Ḳāḍī al-Fāḍil, lit. 'the Excellent Judge'; 3 April 1135...

control of Damascus, Saladin's vizier, al-Qadi al-Fadil, appointed him chancellor, and he also became al-Fadil's deputy. Although Saladin had been unsure...

to their cities and al-Fadil wrote: "They [Izz ad-Din's coalition] advanced like men, like women they vanished." On 2 March, al-Adil from Egypt wrote...

written by Saladin's vizier al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil which he compiled, and parts of a geographical work entitled Kitāb al-Rawḍah al-Bahīyah which was used extensively...

النعمان بن محمد بن منصور بن أحمد بن حيون التميمي, generally known as al-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān (القاضي النعمان) or as ibn Ḥayyūn (ابن حيون) (died 974 CE/363 AH)...

ibn al-Mudawwar refused to go until requested to do so by al-Qadi al-Fadil, the private secretary of Saladin. According to ibn Abi Usaibi'a, ibn al-Mudawwar...

Television Year Title Role Note 2001 Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi Qadi al-Fadil ِArabic title: Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Ayyūb (صلاح الدين الأيوبي) 2002 Saqr Quraish...

figures: Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i (d. After 911) Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani (d. After 971) Al-Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 974) Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. After 1020)...

regime they served. Many of them—most notably the chancery official Qadi al-Fadil—chose to collaborate with Saladin and effectively helped him undermine...

Saladin's behalf. One of Saladin's chief officials and apologists, Qadi al-Fadil, legitimized the suppression of the black African troops and their Armenian...

Saladin's reign as sultan in Egypt, upon the encouragement of his adviser, Qadi al-Fadil, Christians were prohibited from employment in the fiscal administration...

model of stately Insha prose in Arabic was provided by al-Qadi al-Fadil, (d.1199), and later by al-Qalqashandi (d.1418). In the classical Persian literature...

also known as Saladin and the Great Crusades (Arabic: الناصر صلاح الدين, Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din), is a 1963 Egyptian epic film directed by Youssef Chahine...

Qadi al-Fadil, a brilliant jurist from Ascalon, who had served Shawar and briefly Shirkuh before coming into the service of Saladin. Men like Qadi al-Fadil...

more than other Arab auxiliaries. The Kinani tribesmen fought with Qadi al-Fadil, a commander of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin, against the Crusaders at...

of Saladin and in that of his vizier al-Qadi al-Fadil, and Saladin's successors. The title Ra'is al-Umma or al-Millah (Head of the Nation or of the Faith)...

was "permanently enrolled" in the service of Saladin, who appointed him qadi al-'askar ("judge of the army"). In this capacity, he was an eyewitness at...

al-Qifṭī was appointed deputy to al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil, chancellor and adviser to Ṣalāh al-Dīn at Jerusalem, and patron and benefactor of Maimonides, Al-Qifṭī...

held poetry salons for Saladin and his chief men, including al-Qadi al-Fadil and Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani. He died on 17 November 1188. He was buried in Damascus...

imam-caliph al-Hakim (r. 996–1021), and a contemporary of the fellow Isma'ili scholars, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Naysaburi and Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani. All...

of Saladin's chief secretary, Qadi al-Fadil, but when the latter was replaced as vizier by Ibn Mammati's rival Safi al-Din Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Shukr...

Gaining widespread recognition, he was appointed court physician to al-Qadi al-Fadil, the chief secretary to Sultan Saladin, then to Saladin himself; after...

Ayyubid regime placed the numerous Fatimid clan—the contemporary official Qadi al-Fadil places the total at 252, 98 men and 154 women—under house arrest in...

Hamdan Qarmat ibn al-Ash'ath (Arabic: حمدان قرمط بن الأشعث, romanized: Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ ibn al-Ashʿath; fl. c. 874–899 CE) was the eponymous founder of the...

Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani (Arabic: أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن أحمد السجستاني) or al-Sijzi (السجزي) was a 10th-century Persian Ismaili missionary...

Buniyad-i ta’wil, Persian translation of Asas al-ta’wil by Al-Qadi al-Nu'man Ismailism Nasir Khusraw al-Qubadiani Imamah (Ismaili doctrine) Imamah (Nizari...

the qadi Isa al-Hakkari to secure the succession of Shirkuh's nephew, Saladin, as vizier. Following the killing of the palace chamberlain Mu'tamin al-Khilafa...

Kairouan. Abu Abdallah also chose a new chief qadi (judge), in the person of the local Shi'ite Muhammad ibn Umar al-Marwarrudhi. As soon as his rule was stable...

papers and recollections into the Sirat al-Ustadh Jawdhar. Along with the work of al-Qadi al-Nu'man, the Sirat al-Ustadh Jawdhar is one of the main sources...

Egypt, he gained widespread recognition and became a court physician to Qadi al-Fadil, secretary to Saladin. Maimonides studied and worked in a yeshiva attached...