Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad

البرزلي أبو القاسم بن أحمد

1339 CE · 741 AH – 1439 CE · 844 AH

The jurist and leading scholar of Tunis, author of the large legal compendium al-Diwan al-Kabir. Born in Kairouan and lived in Tunis.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Maghreb
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

1275130013251350137514001425145014751500 c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa · Ibn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn Yusuf · Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Faraj ibn Qasim ibn Lubb

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

  • JuristTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

People and things also explored

The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words· The reports from Imam Ahmad· Obedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)· The Hanbali school (madhhab)· Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

Sources

  • Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-barzali-abu-al-qasim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
Related

The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words

The expression "la yanbaghi" ("it is not proper") in Imam Ahmad's words: is it understood as prohibition or as dislike? His companions differed over it, an example of disagreement over the school's wording.