Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (), was a Sunni Hanafi jurist, theologian, and Kalam scholar of the Maturidi school.
Jamal al-Din Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mahmud b. Sa'id b. Nuh al-Qabisi, widely known as al-Taj al-Hanafi.
The date of his birth is unknown, nor are there many authentic circumstances related of his life.
Not much of his early academic life is known nor documented except that many have mentioned his knowledge and his written works.
He lived in Aleppo for a period of time, and worked as a lecturer at al-Madrasa al-Nuriyya.
Amongst his teachers was 'Ala' al-Din al-Kasani, author of Bada'i al-Sana'i (d. 587/1191), who died about a hundred years after Sarakhsi.
Among his printed works are:
and many more other works.
He died in 593 A.H. = 1196/7 A.D. in Aleppo, Syria and he was buried near the supposed tomb of the Islamic prophet Ibrahim, according to Ibn al-'Adim, in his book Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab.