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{{Short description|Syrian historian, poet and Shafi'i jurist (1556-1615)}}
{{distinguish|Al-Biruni}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Al-Burini
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = July 1556
| birth_place = [[Saffuriya]], near [[Nazareth]], [[Galilee]]
| death_date = June 11, 1615
| death_place = [[Damascus]]
| nationality = Ottoman Arab
| occupation = Historian, Poet, Shafi'i Jurist
| notable_works = ''Tarajim al-A'yan min Abna al-Zaman'', ''al-Rihlat al-Tarabulusiyya'', ''al-Rihlat al-Halabiyya''
}}
'''Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini''' (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as '''al-Hasan al-Burini''', was a [[Damascus]]-based [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Arab historian and poet and [[Shafi'i]] jurist.
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Al-Burini was born in mid-July 1556 in the village of [[Saffuriya]] near [[Nazareth]] in the [[Galilee]], hence his ''[[nisba (onomastics)|nisba]]'' (epithet) "al-Saffuri".{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}} His father Muhammad was originally from the village of [[Burin, Nablus|Burin]] near [[Nablus]] hence the ''nisba'' "al-Burini".{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=45}} At the age of 10 he moved to [[Damascus]] with his father.{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}}
Al-Burini learned the [[Qur'an]] at the [[Manjak Mosque]] in the [[al-Midan|Midan]] neighborhood in his adolescence.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=45}} Afterward, he received an education in [[Arabic grammar]], ''[[qanun (law)|qanun]]'' (secular law) and arithmetic from Damascene ''[[ulema]]'' (religious scholars) at the Madrasa al-Umariyya in the [[
After completing his studies, al-Burini became the head of the [[Shafi'i]] ''fiqh'' in the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in 1580. About the same time he began making sermons at the Sultan Mosque and became a lecturer in a number of Damascus madrasas. He was known by his students for his eloquence, charisma and literary knowledge, while the historians and religious scholars of the period lauded al-Burini for the same qualities, as well as his interest in history and philology. The governors and judges of Damascus trusted and appreciated al-Burini, considering him an accomplished Shafi’i jurist with independent judgements.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=46}} He served as the ''[[kadi (Ottoman Empire)|kadi]]'' (Islamic head judge) of the Ottoman [[Hajj]] pilgrimage caravan from Damascus to [[Mecca]] in 1611.{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}} On 11 June 1615 he died in Damascus and was buried in the cemetery of [[Bab al-Faradis]].{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}}{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=47}}
==Literary works==
One of al-Burini's main bodies of work was ''Tarajim al-A'yan min Abna al-Zaman'', a collection of 205 biographies of notable contemporary scholars, rulers and artisans, completed in 1614 after ten years.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=47}} Fadl Allah ibn Muhibb Allah edited and published the work in 1667 with a supplement.{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}} The work was republished in Damascus in 1959.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=47}}
Al-Burini often traveled to different parts of Syria, penning two works about his trips to [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]] in 1599/1600 and Aleppo in ''al-Rihlat al-Tarabulusiyya'' and ''al-Rihlat al-Halabiyya'', respectively.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=46}} During his visits to Tripoli and its [[Akkar]] countryside he was hosted by the chieftain and governor [[Yusuf Sayfa Pasha]].{{sfn|Abu-Husayn|1985|p=62}}
His poetry is mostly found in a ''[[diwan (poetry)|diwan]]'' located in [[Istanbul]]. His epistle to As'ad ibn Muiin al-Din al-Tibrizi al-Dimashqi is located in [[Gotha]], his ''Marathi'' poems for the Sufi Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Barakat al-Qadiri is preserved in Berlin and number of his poems are held in the [[British Museum]] in London.{{sfn|Brockelmann|1960|p=1333}}
He penned a commentary on the ''diwan'' of [[Ibn al-Farid]] in 1591 and a commentary on the latter's ''al-Ta’iyya al-Sughra'' in 1593.{{sfn|Mullazadih|2013|p=47}}
==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Abu-Husayn |first1=Abdul-Rahim |authorlink=Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn |title=Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650 |date=1985 |publisher=American University of Beirut |location=Beirut |isbn=9780815660729 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1ttAAAAMAAJ }}
*{{EI2 |last=Brockelmann |first=C.|author-link= Carl Brockelmann |article=Al-Burini |volume=1 |page=1333}}
*{{cite book |last=Mullazadih |first=Muhammad Hani |title=Historians of the Islamic World: Selected Entries from Encyclopedia of the World of Islam | ==Further reading==
*{{cite web |last1=El-Rouayheb |first1=Khaled |title=al-Burini, Hasan b. Muhammad (1556-1615) |url=https://ottomanhistorians.uchicago.edu/en/historians/22 |website=Historians of the Ottoman Empire |publisher=The University of Chicago: Division of the Humanities |access-date=8 January 2022}}
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