Cairo
Taqi al-Din Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi al-Subki was among the greatest Shafi'i scholars of the Mamluk age, chief judge of Damascus and author of many works in law…
Taqi al-Din Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi al-Subki was among the greatest Shafi'i scholars of the Mamluk age, chief judge of Damascus and author of many works in law and hadith; his son Taj al-Din wrote Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra. He passed away in Cairo in 756 AH. His grave is in the old cemetery outside Bab al-Nasr, east of the Fatimid walls, beside Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli.