Sa’duddin Taftazani

Sa’duddin Taftazani is recognized as a leading Hanafi-Maturidi scholar of the Timurid period. He was a great encyclopedic thinker who studied nahw, sarf, balagha, usul al-fiqh and furu al-fiqh (Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki fiqh), logic, Aqeedah, tafsir, geometry, astronomy, and other similar sciences. It is known that he wrote more than fifty works in various fields of science. Five of these are related to Aqeedah and are important sources on the doctrine of Maturidiyya. This book gives a piece of brief information on the scholar’s activities and scientific legacy.