Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. al-Buhlūl b. Ḥassān b. Sinān al-Tanūkhī al-Anbārī (231–318/845–930), called Ibn al-Buhlūl , was a Ḥanafī jurist and judge (qāḍī) . He came from a family of scholars originating in the Iraqi city of al-Anbār, where his brother al-Buhlūl b. Isḥāq (d. 2…
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According to Islamic tradition, the roots of the judicial system go back to the time of the Prophet Muḥammad, who, it is said, sent qāḍī s to various parts of the Arabian Peninsula. However, it is more likely that it was later Muslim rulers who appointed the first of these “judg…
ʿUbaydallāh b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥuṣayn al-ʿAnbarī (d. 168/784–5) was a Basran jurist and qāḍī (judge), born between 100/718–9 and 106/724–5. A high-ranking notable from the tribe of Tamīm, he was a scholar in various disciplines, including law, poetry, lexicography, and tribal gen…
Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb al-Kindī al-Tujībī (d. 350/961) was an Egyptian historian and the author of a book on the governors of Egypt up until 334/946 and another on the judges of al-Fusṭāṭ up until 270/884. He was born on 10 Dhū l-Ḥijja 283/17 January 897 into the …
Al-Ahwāz (Pers. Ahvāz) is a city in Khūzistān (a province of southwestern Persia), located at 31° 19' N, 48° 46' E. It is situated on both sides of the Kārūn River (also known as Dujayl, the “small Tigris”), where the river enters the plain after cutting through a chain of sands…
