Tabaqat al-fuqaha' (Shirazi)

طبقات الفقهاء

Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi's biographical dictionary of jurists by generations, focusing on the Shafi'i school and on the transmission of teaching within it.

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A book by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi with biographies of the jurists of the schools, arranged by generations (tabaqat). It focuses on the Shafi'i jurists and on the sequence of memorisation and teaching in the school. 1

This description is taken from the introduction by the editor Ihsan Abbas. Anything beyond it needs a further source.

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Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi

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تشييد المدرسة النظامية ببغداد· فتنة القشيري بين الحنابلة والأشعرية ببغداد· Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi· يوسف الهمذاني· Baghdad· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith

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  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi)
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تشييد المدرسة النظامية ببغداد

In 459 Baghdad's Nizamiyya school was finished; Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was named its teacher, but when the people gathered he had hidden — Ibn al-Sabbagh taught till they coaxed al-Shirazi to accept. Al-Dhahabi reports Nizam al-Mulk built it — 'said to be the first school built for the jurists'.