al-Wansharīsī

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The Supreme Method and the Pure Source on the Rulers of Notorization (al-Manhaj al-Faaiq wa al-Manhal al-Raaiq fi Ahkam al-Wathaaiq)

Ahmad ibn Yahyā al-Wansharīsī ( Arabic أحمد بن يحيى بن محمد بن عبد الواحد بن علي الونشريسي, DMG Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAlī al-Wansarīsī , b. 1430 or 1431; died 1505 or 1508 in Fez ) was a Maghrebian Islamic theologian and lawyer from the Maliki school of law ( madhhab ) from the time shortly before the fall of Granada .

al-Miʿyār al-muʿrib

He is the author of a famous Maliki collection of fatwas called Al-Miʿyār al-muʿrib from the late 15th century, a collection of legal opinions, court and trial records ( nawāzil ) by contemporary and former scholars from Tunisia , Algeria , Morocco and al Andalus , as can be seen from its full title (al-Miʿyār al-muʿrib wa-ʾl-ǧāmiʿ al-muġrib ʿan fatāwī ʿulamāʾ Ifrīqīya wa-ʾl-Andalus wa-ʾl-Maġrib).

Works (selection)

  • al-Miʿyār al-muʿrib (Maliki fatwa collection), a more recent edition appeared in Bairūt: Dār al-Ġarb al-Islāmī, 1981–1983 (Wizārat al-Auqāf wa-'š-Šuʾūn al-Islāmīya li-'l- Mamlakat al-Maġribīya). Published in thirteen volumes by Muḥammad Ḥiǧǧī.
  • al-Manhaǧ al-Fāʾiq wa-ʾl-Manhal al-Rāʾiq wa-ʾl-Maʿnā ʾl-lāʾiq bi-adab al-muwaṯṯiq wa-Aḥkām al-Waṯāʾiq المنهج. الاااا المنهج الفاب المن الفوب لمو ب الاب لم لم الاا والمن لملم لمل الااا المنهج. Printed in Fes 1881

See also

literature

  • David S. Powers: “Aḥmad al-Wansharīsī (d. 914/1505)”, in: Oussama Arabi, David Stephan Powers, Susan Ann Spectorsky: Islamic Legal Thought. A Compendium of Muslim Jurists . Brill Academic Pub, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-25452-7 ( publisher's link )
  • V. Lagardère: al-Wan sh arīsī in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. XI, pp. 139b-141a. ( Online partial view )
  • David S. Powers: Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-81691-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Amar, Emile, trans .: “La Pierre de touché des fetwas,” Archives Marocaines xii (1908) and xiii (1909) ( library link )
  • Franke, Patrick: Islam: State and Religion in Modern Europe , in: European History Online (EGO), ed. from the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz, December 13, 2012.
  • Ruggles, D. Fairchild (ed.): Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources . Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 ( excerpt in Google book search)

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References and footnotes

  1. ^ SUB GÖ - This includes in particular the cities of Kairouan , Bejaia , Tlemcen , Córdoba , Granada , Ceuta , Fès and Marrakech .
  2. see also Ifrīqīya , Andalus and Maghreb