Ibn Farhun
Ibn Farḥūn | |
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| Born | 1358 AD / 760 AH |
| Died | 1397 AD / 799 AH |
| Other names | Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad, Ibn Farḥūn, Burhanuddin al-Amari. |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Maliki history, biography and fiqh (jurisprudence) |
| Notable works | Al-dībāj al-mudhhab fī ma‘rifat a‘yān ‘ulamā’ al-madhhab; Tabṣirat al-ḥukkām fī uṣūl al-aqḍiya wa-manāhij al-aḥkām |
Ibn Farḥūn al-Mālikī—full name; Ibrāhīm b. ‘Alī b. M. Ibn Farḥūn, Burhān al-Dīn al-Ya’marī al-Andalusī al-Mālikī (إبراهيم بن علي بن محمد، ابن فرحون، برهان الدين اليعمري) (ca.1358 - 1397) was a Mālikī faqīh (jurist) of Moroccan-Andalusian origin native of Medina. 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.[1]
- 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);[2]
Bibliography
- Aḥmad Bābā, Aḥmad (2004). Nayl al-ibtihāj i bi-taṭrīz al-Dībāj. Maktabat al-ṭabaqāt al-Mālikīyah (in Arabic). al-Qāhirah: Maktabat al-Thaqāfah al-Dīnīyah. pp. 33–35.
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{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Brockelmann, Carl (1902). Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (in German). Vol. II. E. Felber. pp. 175, 263.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Hopkins, J.F.P. (1986). "Ibn Farḥūn". The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 3 (New ed.). Leiden: Brill.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Ibn Farḥūn, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī. al-Dībāj al-mudhahhab fī maʻrifat aʻyān ʻulamāʼ al-madhhab (in Arabic). pp. 124–6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Pons Boigues, Francisco (1898). Ensayo bio-bibliográfico sobre los historiadores y geógrafos arábigo-españoles; obra premiada por la Biblioteca Nacional en el concurso público de 1893 (in Spanish). Madrid: S.F. de Sales. pp. 348-9 (§298).
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand (1882). "III". Die Geschichtschreiber der Araber und ihre Werke (in German). Wien. p. 22 (§448).
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External Links
Kutub al-Khisal wa-l'Alghaz wa-l-Mustalahat_almarkaz.ma (in Arabic)
See also
References
- ^ Ibn Farḥūn, Durrat al-Ghawwāṣ fī Muḥāḍarat al-Khawāṣṣ, ed. by Muḥammad Abū al-Ajfān and ʿUthmān Baṭṭīkh (Tūnis: al-Maktaba al-ʿAtīqa, 1979).
- ^ 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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