The work was called al-Kawakib al-sa'ira bi a'yan al-m'ia wa ashara (The Wandering Stars: The Notables of the Tenth Century ). Ghazzi wrote a dictionary of biographies of scholars and other important figures of his father's generation. He died in the home of his wife (not a daughter of al-Ithawi) on 8 June 1657. Ghazzi became afflicted with a light paralysis around 1644. His reputation in the Hejaz was as the 'hadith scholar of the age' and as 'the scholar of al-Sham '.
He traveled to different parts of Syria and Palestine and made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca on twelve occasions. Ghazzi became a highly reputable scholar and teacher in several madrasas, and at times served as a mufti, imam and Friday prayer khatib (preacher). Like his father and grandfather, Ghazzi was a Sufi of the Qadiriyya. Other teachers of Ghazzi included the Arab scholar Muhibbidin ibn Abi Bakr al-Hamawi, the Turkish head Ottoman qadi of Damascus Muhammad ibn Hassan al-Su'udi and the Egyptian scholars Zayn al-Din al-Bakri and Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ramli. He eventually married al-Ithawi's daughter, and when she died of an illness, al-Ithawi married off his other daughter to him. The first among them was the Hanafi mufti of Damascus, followed by the Shafi'i mufti Shihab al-Din Ahmad al-Ithawi, who instructed Ghazzi for thirty-five years. His father was his first teacher, and after his death, Ghazzi's mother became responsible for his education. He was a young boy when his father died, but he considerably documented his father's life and works in his own career as a scholar in Damascus. Ghazzi, born on 19 January 1570, was the youngest of his siblings. The only known biography of Ghazzi himself is by his Damascene contemporary Muhammad Amin al-Muhibbi.
By the time of his death in 1577 he had become among the preeminent scholars of Damascus, best known for his tafsirs (interpretations of Islamic scripture) and his fatwas (legal opinions). He wrote one of the first Arabic travel accounts of Constantinople, the Ottoman capital, and the places along the way, called al-Matali al-badriyya fi al-manazil al-Rumiyya (Full Moon Rising: Waystations to Constantinople) during his visit in 1530–1531. He eventually became the Shafi'i mufti of Damascus and an instructor in the Umayyad Mosque. He started his career as a scholar in Damascus around 1515. Badr al-Din, born in 1499, received an elite education in the Mamluk capital Cairo, including instruction by al-Suyuti. Radi al-Din's son Badr al-Din was Ghazzi's father.
He penned works about Sufism, aqida (creed), agriculture and plants, medicine, and Arabic grammar. He had lost his position at some point before or during the political transition, but regained it by developing close ties with the Ottoman government.
His grandfather Radi al-Din al-Ghazzi (1458–1529) was the deputy qadi (judge) of the Shafi'i madhhab (Islamic school of jurisprudence) and an important figure in the Sufi Qadiriyya order in the late 15th and early 16th century, during the ending years of Mamluk rule and the beginnings of Ottoman rule. They were originally from Gaza, hence their nisba 'al-Ghazzi'. For more information, see About the Repository.Ghazzi came from a family of Muslim scholars long based in Damascus. Click the name of an author to see a listing of that person's work. Listing of authors who have works in this repository as of October 14, 2022.
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