Al-Sayyid al-Tanukhi

{{Short description|Theologian}}

{{Druze|Important figures}}

Al-Amir al-Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'Abdalla al-Tanukhi (May 1417 – September 1479) was a Druze theologian and commentator. He has been described as "the most deeply revered individual in Druze history after the hudud who founded and propagated the faith." He is mostly famous for writing many books referred to as "al sharh" or الشرح in Arabic which means "the explanation." As their title suggests, these books are a deep explanation of the Epistles of Wisdom.{{cite book |author=Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BprjrZzee5EC&pg=PA172 |title=The Druzes: A New Study of Their History, Faith, and Society |publisher=BRILL |year=1993 |isbn=978-90-04-09705-6 |pages=172–8 |accessdate=17 September 2012}} His tomb in Aabey, Lebanon is a site of pilgrimage for the Druze.{{cite book|author=Nissim Dana|title=The Druse, a religious community in transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUgJAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=17 September 2012|year=1980|publisher=Turtledove Pub.|isbn=978-965-200-028-6|page=37}} He is credited with establishing a council of Initiates which brought together the Druze of the Chouf mountains.Salibi, Kamal (2019, 1st edition 1988) A House of Many Mansions. The history of Lebanon reconsidered. I.B. Tauris. {{ISBN|978-1-8606-4912-7}} p.144