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Ibn al-Azraq al-Gharnati (Muhammad ibn Ali)

ابن الأزرق الغرناطي

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, Abu Abd Allah Shams al-Din al-Gharnati, a Maliki jurist and judge. He held the judgeship at Granada until the Christians took it, then moved to Tlemcen and then to the East, seeking help from the rulers for the king of Granada, and became chief judge at Jerusalem. 1

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Roles
Jurist
Counted among
Sunni (Maliki)
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
al-Andalus & Europe · Levant & Iraq
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Summary

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, Abu Abd Allah Shams al-Din al-Gharnati, a Maliki jurist and judge. He held the judgeship at Granada until the Christians took it. 1 He then moved to Tlemcen and to the East, seeking help from the rulers for the king of Granada, and became chief judge at Jerusalem. 1

Teachers and pupils

He studied with Ibn Fatuh, Abu Abd Allah al-Sarqusti, Abu al-Faraj Abd Allah al-Biqni, Ahmad ibn Abi Yahya al-Sharif al-Tilimsani and Abu Ishaq al-Abdusi; al-Hafiz Ibn Dawud was among those who studied with him. 1

Works

His works include Shifa' al-Ghalil fi sharh Mukhtasar Khalil, Bada'i' al-Silk fi tabai' al-mulk, Rawdat al-A'lam bi-manzilat al-'arabiyya min 'ulum al-Islam, and al-Ibriz al-masbuk fi kayfiyat adab al-muluk. 1

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8505
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