Al-Ulama al-Uzzab : Arabic

'al-Ladhina Atharu al-`Ilm `ala al-Zawaj,'
*[A4] Hardback - 323 pages,

by Shaykh Abd al-Fattah al-Ghudda [d.1417],

Published by Maktba al-Matbu'at al-Islamiyya,
& Dar al-Bashaer al-Islamiyyah, Syria.

Description :

Al-Ulama al-Uzzab 'al-Ladhina Atharu al-`Ilm `ala al-Zawaj,' The Celibate Scholars who Preferred Sacred Knowledge over Marriage.  This unique work is one of those written as part of a chain of works by Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, rahimahullah, on the biography of such scholars and their total devotion and dedication in seeking knowledge.


This work specifically focuses on 35 individual Celibate scholars starting with Tabi'i of 131 Hijri till modern day scholars who abandoned marriage and exclusively focused on scholarship and Islamic literature, be they female or male alike. Scholars like al-Tabari, al-Zamakhshari, Imam al-Shayrazi, al-Nawawi, the controversial Ibn Taymiyyah, Izz al-Din Ibn al-Jama'ah, and many more. They remained single all their life in order to devote themselves to sacred knowledge and worship.

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāh Abū Ghudda (1917-1997) was a leading scholar of the traditional Islamic sciences specialising in hadith. He was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1917. He was considered as one of the outstanding scholars of the 20th century.


Shaykh Abu Ghuddah as well as a renowned scholar of Hadith was a scholar of the Hanafi school of Fiqh. He studied in Syria and Egypt specialising in Arabic Language, Hadith, Shariah and Psychology. He had many prominent teachers, amongst them Shaykh Ragib al-Tabbakh, Shaykh Ahmed ibn Muhamad al-Zaraqa, Shaykh Isa al-Bayanuni, Shaykh Ahmad al-Kurdi and the renouned Ottoman Scholar Imam al-Kawthari.

Selection of works of Shaykh Abd al-Fattah abu al-Ghuddah.

*Dimensions : 24.5 x 17.5cm.