al-Taftazani

Sa'd al-Din Masud ibn Umar al-Taftazani (722-792H / 1322-1390 CE) was a Central Asian polymath who served at the courts of the Timurids and other rulers. He wrote authoritative commentaries on foundational texts in multiple Islamic sciences: Sharh al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyyah (theology), Sharh al-Talwih (Hanafi usul al-fiqh), Sharh Mukhtasar Ibn al-Hajib (Maliki usul), Sharh al-Maqasid (kalam), and al-Mutawwal and al-Mukhtasar (Arabic rhetoric). These commentaries became standard teaching texts in madrasas across the Islamic world for centuries. He famously debated al-Jurjani at Timur's court on questions of theology.