Al-Hajwi

الحَجوي

1376 AH

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi al-Tha'alibi al-Zaynabi, a Maliki of Fez. He studied in Fez under his father and others, graduated from the Qarawiyyin mosque and began teaching there. Late in the Alawite state in Morocco he held several offices, among them ministries of education and of justice and the presidency of the supreme sharia appeal court. His works include al-Fikr al-sami fi tarikh al-fiqh al-islami, a treatise on divorce, and al-Nizam al-ijtima'i fi al-Islam. 1

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Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi al-Tha'alibi al-Zaynabi, a Maliki of Fez. He studied in Fez under his father and others, graduated from the Qarawiyyin mosque and began teaching there. Late in the Alawite state in Morocco he held several offices, among them ministries of education and of justice and the presidency of the supreme sharia appeal court. His works include al-Fikr al-sami fi tarikh al-fiqh al-islami, a treatise on divorce, and al-Nizam al-ijtima'i fi al-Islam. 1

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  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.1619
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