Al-Ba'uni


Al-Bā'ūnī is an Arabic family name most famously denoting the prominent dynasty of scholars and jurists descending from Nāṣir b. Khalīfa b. Faradj al-Nāṣirī al-Bā'unī al-Shāfi'ī, who began life as a weaver in the village of Bā'ūn in Hauran. Leaving around 750/1349 for Nazareth, Nāṣir had the following prominent descendants before the dynasty disappears from the historical record:
The family is noted for its interest in Islamic mysticism and Sufism; 'many members of the Bū'ūnī family... were buried in a family plot adjacent to the zāwiyah of the Sufi master Abū Bakr ibn Dūwūd. This strongly suggests their attachment to this Sufi and his descendents, who were affiliated with the Urmawī branch of the Qādirīyah order'. Several of the family's female members, including 'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya, married members of another prominent Damascus family, Ibn Naqīb al-Ashrāf, who were noted for being descendants of Muhammad.