"The Muwaṭṭa, written in the eighth century CE by Mālik b. Anas-known as the Imam of Medina-is the first written treatise of Islamic law. The Prophet Muḥammad and his earliest followers immigrated to the city of Medina after they experienced severe persecution in their hometown …
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghammī (716–803/1316–1401) was the leading jurist of his generation in the Mālikī school—one of the four major Sunnī schools of Islamic law—in Ifrīqiya (present-day Tunisia). The eighth/fourteenth century was a turb…
Ibn Farḥūn , whose full name was Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Farḥūn al-Yaʿmarī al-Mālikī (d. 799/1397), was an influential Mālikī jurist of the eighth/fourteenth century. He was of a well-regarded Arab family that traced its descent to the Quraysh, the Prophet Muḥammad’s tr…