Abu Hafs Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi أبو حفص سراج الدين عمر الغزنوي

Abu Hafs Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi rahimahullah (d. 773 AH / 1371 CE) was a medieval Hanafi scholar whose nisbas point to origins in Ghazni (in present-day Afghanistan) and a period of scholarly activity in the Indian subcontinent, reflected in the epithet al-Hindi often appended to his name in manuscript traditions. Working within the Hanafi school and the Maturidi theological tradition, he produced an exposition (sharh) of the Aqida al-Tahawiyya, the celebrated creed text of the ninth-century Egyptian jurist Imam Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi. This commentary engages the Tahawiyya within the framework of Hanafi-Maturidi kalam, making it a resource for students and scholars of Sunni theology. His work represents the broader medieval scholarly tradition of Central Asian and Indo-Persian Islamic scholarship that transmitted and elaborated upon foundational creedal texts across the eastern Muslim world.