Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (Arabic: أكمل الدين البابرتي), was a Hanafi scholar, jurist, scholastic Maturidi theologian, mufassir (Quranic exegete), muhaddis (Hadith scholar), grammarian (nahawi), an eloquent orator, and prolific author with more than 40 works to his name.

[6][7] After studying in Aleppo, he moved to Cairo in 740 A.H. (1340 A.D.) where he studied with Shams al-Din al-Isfahani (d. 749/1348), Qawam al-Din al-Kaki (d. 749/1348), Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi (d. 745/1344), Ibn 'Abd al-Hadi (d. 744/1343) and other renowned scholars.

He was appointed as professor in Cairo in the khanqah of the Amir Sayf al-Din Shaykhu/Shaykhun al-Nasiri (also al-'Umari), who was originally a member of the household of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Kalawun (d.

[8] Among his celebrated students are Al-Sharif al-Jurjani (d. 1413) and Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1430 or 1431).

[9] He wrote more than 40 works in Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh (Principles of Islamic jurisprudence), Tafsir (Quranic exegesis), Hadith studies, Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, Nahw (Arabic grammar), Arabic literature, Morphology (linguistics), and Rhetoric.