Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi

أبو إسحاق الشيرازي

c. 1003 CE · 393 AH – c. 1083 CE · 476 AH

Baghdad

A Shafi'i jurist and usulist, author of Tabaqat al-fuqaha and al-Muhadhdhab; born at Firuzabad in 393 AH, studied in Fars, Basra and Baghdad, and became one of the leading Shafi'i jurists of his time; he declined the chief qadiship when the caliph offered it.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: al-Tanukhi al-Qadi Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Muhsin · Al-Ansari al-Harawi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad · Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani, Muhammad · Ibn al-Bitr Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad · Ibn Hayyan, Abu Marwan

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Baghdad

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موجز

إبراهيم بن علي بن يوسف الفيروزآبادي الشيرازي، أبو إسحاق، فقيه شافعي وأصولي، صاحب «طبقات الفقهاء» و«المهذب». 1

حياته

وُلد بفيروزآباد سنة 393هـ، وفي «اللباب» سنة 373 وقيل 395، وترجح مقدمة المحقق 393. ودرس بفارس والبصرة ثم بغداد، وصار من كبار فقهاء الشافعية في عصره. توفي سنة 476هـ، والتحويل الميلادي مشتق. 1

قضاء القضاة والنظامية

امتنع عن قضاء القضاة حين عرضه عليه الخليفة. وقُرر لتدريس المدرسة النظامية في بغداد لما فرغت سنة 459هـ، فاجتمع الناس فلم يحضر واختفى، فدرّس ابن الصباغ، ثم تلطفوا به حتى أجاب ودرّس. 2

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Authored
Tabaqat al-fuqaha' (Shirazi)
Lived in
Baghdad
Taught
يوسف الهمذاني
Participated in
تشييد المدرسة النظامية ببغداد· فتنة القشيري بين الحنابلة والأشعرية ببغداد

People and things also explored

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· فتنة الشيعة والسنة بباب الطاق سنة 348· دخول بني بويه بغداد وتلقيبهم سنة 334· The Aman of Samalu and its People's Transfer to Baghdad· The Conquest of al-Anbar and the Raid on Baghdad's Market· The Founding of Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad)

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi), p. 5-6
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 645-646
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Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

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