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Ibn Farḥūn al-Mālikī—full name; Ibrāhīm b. ‘Alī b. M. Ibn Farḥūn, Burhān al-Dīn al-Ya’marī al-Andalusī al-Mālikī (Arabic: إبراهيم بن علي بن محمد، ابن فرحون، برهان الدين اليعمري) (ca.1358 - 1397) was an Arab Mālikī faqīh (jurist) of Medina. born into a prominent Arab family that traced its descent to Quraysh.[1] He traveled to Egypt, Levant (Syria) and Jerusalem. In 1390 he returned to Medina, where he professed adherence to Maliki Islam and became qāḍa (judge). His principal biographer, Aḥmad Bābā attributes eight books to him. Only two MSS have been published, while three are lost.

Works

  • Al-dībāj al-mudhhab fī ma‘rifat a‘yān ‘ulamā’ al-madhhab; popularly known as Al-Dībāj, a biographical dictionary of Mālikī ‘ulamā’ (scholars) and comprehensive history of Malikite thought and scholarship of the school in Al-Andalus and the Maghreb, its rites, biography of its founder Mālik ibn Anas and bibliography. Supplements and abridgements include Nayl al-ibtihāj the edition with Aḥmad Bābā (Cairo, 1351/1932).
  • Tabṣirat al-ḥukkām fī uṣūl al-aqḍiya wa-manāhij al-aḥkām; manual of legal procedures, rules of evidence, etc.
  • Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī muḥāḍarat al-khawāṣṣ (درة الغواص في محاضرة الخواص, 'the pearl-diver's prize on the discourse of elites'); treatise on legal riddles.[2]
  • Kashf al-niqāb al-ḥājib 'an muṣṭalaḥ Ibn al-Ḥājib (كشف النقاب الحاجب عن مصطلح ابن الحاجب);
  • Irshād al-sālik ilá afʻāl al-manāsik (إرشاد السالك إلى أفعال المناسك);[3]

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References

  1. ^ Fadel, Mohammad (2018-01-01). "Ibn Farḥūn". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
  2. ^ Ibn Farḥūn, Durrat al-Ghawwāṣ fī Muḥāḍarat al-Khawāṣṣ, ed. by Muḥammad Abū al-Ajfān and ʿUthmān Baṭṭīkh (Tūnis: al-Maktaba al-ʿAtīqa, 1979).
  3. ^ Ibn Farḥūn, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī (1989). Irshād al-sālik ilá afʻāl al-manāsik. Taḥqīq al-nuṣūs (in Arabic, English, and French). al-Muʼassasah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Tarjamah wa-al-Taḥqīq wa-al-Dirāsāt, Bayt al-Ḥikmah. ISBN 978-9973911148.
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