This article provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of the life, scholarship, and intellectual legacy of the eminent Muslim scholar Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī (508–597 AH / 1115–1201 CE). Drawing upon classical biographical sources and historical accounts, the study highlights his early upbringing, extensive scholarly training under leading scholars of Baghdad, and his mastery of diverse Islamic sciences including tafsīr, hadith, fiqh, preaching, asceticism, history, and literature. The article examines Ibn al-Jawzī’s exceptional contributions as an author of more than two thousand works, his influential role as an orator whose sermons inspired tens of thousands, and his deep spiritual reflections that shaped Islamic intellectual tradition.

Ibn al-Jawzī; Islamic scholarship; medieval Baghdad; hadith studies; Qur’anic exegesis; Islamic preaching; Islamic history; biographical literature; asceticism; Islamic theology; Arabic literature; classical Islamic scholars.

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