Al-Baqillani serves as qadi outside Baghdad and visits Shiraz, c. 970-983

الباقلاني قاضياً خارج بغداد وزائراً لشيراز، نحو ٣٦٠–٣٧٢هـ

between 970 and 983 CE

For a time al-Baqillani exercised the office of qadi outside the capital, Baghdad, and the sources mention visits to Shiraz and to the Byzantine court — years that fell within the amirate of Adud al-Dawla ibn Buwayh, whose power was then at its zenith in Iraq and Fars ¹.

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Verse-endings (fawasil)

A fasila is the last word of a verse, like a poem's rhyme or the paired end of rhymed prose; it is al-Zarkashi's third type. Al-Dani distinguished the fasila from the verse-end; the endings were called fawasil rather than saj' to honour the Qur'an, and scholars differed over whether rhymed prose occurs in it: al-Rummani and al-Baqillani denied it, the latter citing al-Ash'ari, while others affirmed it.

Al-Baqillani serves as qadi outside Baghdad and visits Shiraz, c. 970-983

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Verse-endings (fawasil)