Abū Shujāʿ

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Abū Shujāʿ Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn (or al-Ḥasan) b. Aḥmad al-Iṣfahānī al-ʿAbbādī, was a Shāfiʿī jurist and author of a renowned compendium on Shāfiʿī legal practice. Not much is known about Abū Shujāʿ’s life, except that he was born in 433/1041–2 in Basra. His father came from ʿAbbādān and his grandfather from Isfahan. According to some biographers (following Yāqūt, 4:74), Abū Shujāʿ held the position of judge in Basra and taught fiqh (jurisprudence) there. It is not known when he died, but he

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Abū Shujāʿ Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn (or al-Ḥasan) b. Aḥmad al-Iṣfahānī al-ʿAbbādī, was a Shāfiʿī jurist and author of a renowned compendium on Shāfiʿī legal practice. Not much is known about Abū Shujāʿ’s life, except that he was born in 433/1041–2 in Basra. His father came from ʿAbbādān and his grandfather from Isfahan. According to some biographers (following Yāqūt, 4:74), Abū Shujāʿ held the position of judge in Basra and taught fiqh (jurisprudence) there. It is not known when he died, but he

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Opwis, Felicitas

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