The Banu Hawazin family played a role in the growth and prosperity of the scientific movement in Nishapur during the fifth and sixth centuries AH

Abstract

       The cities of the Islamic East became important scientific centers during the Abbasid eras (132 AH/656 AH) (749 AD/1258 AD). One of the most important of these cities is the city of Nishapur, in which the Banu Hawazin family settled, as well as many other scientific families that had a major role in the growth and prosperity of many sciences, especially religious sciences. The Banu Hawazin family became famous as one of these families and had a major role in the growth and prosperity of the scientific movement in Nishapur. This family contributed effectively through scientific trips that had an impact on the growth and activity of this movement through the scientific meetings they held with the sheikhs of their time. They also had an impact on the popularity of the scientific councils that the family’s members held in Nishapur, as they were attended by a large number of science students. They also had efforts in establishing and managing schools, such as the Al-Daqqaqiya School, which Abu Al-Qasim Abdul Karim bin Hawazin Al-Qushayri inherited from his wife’s father, Fatima bint Abi Ali Al-Daqqaq. The men of this family were also famous for their oratory, as all these efforts undertaken by the men of this family had a clear impact on the growth and prosperity of the scientific movement in the city of Nishapur.