Noman al-Alusi

Khayr al-Dīn Nu'mān al-Alūsī (1836–1899) was an Islamic scholar, jurist and linguist who lived in Baghdad, Iraq. A supporter of the Salafi movement, he served as an influence of Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi, his nephew and close disciple.

Biography Khayr al-Dīn Nu'mān ibn Maḥmūd was born in 1836 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was the son of Mahmud al-Alusi, an Islamic scholar and Mufti of the Hanafi school best known for writing the Rūh al-Ma'ānī, a multi-volume work of exegesis on the Qur'an. Al-Alusi learned the basics of the Islamic religion from his father, while he studied Islamic jurisprudence, creed and theology abroad in Istanbul as well as the Al-Azhar University of Cairo, Egypt.

Al-Alusi was a supporter of the Salafi movement, and in 1818 he declared his support for the movement by publishing a treatise titled Jalāʾ al-ʿaynayn, an introduction to contemporary Salafism and the tenets of the movement. Al-Alusi did not ascribe to a particular school of thought, even though his family was mainly well-versed in the traditions of the Hanafi school.

Nu'man al-Alusi passed away in 1899, at the age of 63.

Works Jalāʾ al-ʿaynayn fī muḥākamat al-Aḥmadayn (The Illumination of the Two Eyes in the Trial of the Two Ahmads) is a treatise written in 1818 as a handbook to the Salafi movement, including basic tenets and theology of Salafism.