List of Famous people named Dawud

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Dawud al-Zahiri

First Name Dawud

Last Name Al-Zahiri

Born on November 30, 0814

Died on November 30, 0882 (aged 68)

Born in Iraq, Najaf Governorate

Dawud bin Ali bin Khalaf al-Zahiri was a Muslim Persian scholar of Islamic law during the Islamic Golden Age, specializing in the fields of hermeneutics, biographical evaluation, and historiography. He is widely regarded as the founder of the Ẓāhirī school of thought (madhab), the fifth school of thought in Sunni Islam, characterised by its reliance on the manifest (zahir) meaning of expressions in the Qur'an and hadith.

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