Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · hadith scholar · man of letters
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Global / Diaspora
- Review
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Summary
A Maliki scholar of Fez of the Fihriya, traditionist and man of letters, learned in several sciences; he studied with his father, his uncle Ahmad, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi, the judge Ibn Sawda and Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Arabi; his father called him the Suyuti of his age. Works include Miftah al-Shifa and Azhar al-Basatin. 1
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7834
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (Abu Zayd, Maliki scholar of Fez)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-rahman-abu-zayd-al-fasi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.