Al-Bazdawi

Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Bazdawi (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن محمد البَزدَوي‎), known with the honorific title of Fakhr al-Islam (the pride of Islam), was a leading Hanafi scholar in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence. He is author of the acclaimed Kanz al-Wusul ila Ma'refat al-Usul (Arabic: کنز الوصول إلی معرفة الأصول‎, lit. 'The Treasure of Obtaining in Knowledge of Legal'), popularly known as Usul al-Bazdawi, a seminal work in Hanafi Usul al-Fiqh.

Abu al-Hasan al-Bazdawi
أبو الحسن البَزدَوي
TitleFakhr al-Islam
فخر الإسلام
Personal
Born400 A.H. = 1010 A.D.
Bazda (40 kilometers from the medieval town of Nasaf, near Bukhara)
Died482 A.H. = 1089 A.D.
Samarqand
ReligionIslam
EthnicityPersian
EraIslamic Golden Age
RegionTransoxiana (Central Asia)
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
Main interest(s)Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh
Notable work(s)Usul al-Bazdawi
Muslim leader

'Abd al-Qadir ibn Abi al-Wafa' al-Qurashi (d. 775/1373) has praised him in his Hanafi biographical dictionary, Al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya fi Tabaqat al-Hanafiyya (Arabic: الجواهر المضية في طبقات الحنفية‎).[1]

Works

His most famous book is Kanz al-Wusul ila Ma'refat al-Usul (Arabic: کنز الوصول إلی معرفة الأصول‎), popularly known as Usul al-Bazdawi, which is a seminal book in Hanafi Usul al-Fiqh and was a standard teaching text for centuries.[2]

In this work, he focuses on issues such as rules and methods of determining a variety of sources and methods for making the right decision and discourses on rules of working with texts, and so on. The Uzbek Academy of Sciences has more than a dozen copies of this work.

The book has generated numerous commentaries, the most popular of which being Kashf al-Asrar (Arabic: کشف الأسرار، شرح أصول البزدوي‎) by 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Bukhari (d. 730/1329).

His other works include:[3]

  • Sharh al-Jami' al-Kabeer, and Sharh al-Jami' al-Sagheer (Commentaries on al-Jami' al-Kabeer, and al-Jami' al-Sagheer by Muhammad al-Shaybani).
  • Sharh al-Jami' al-Sahih (Commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari).
  • Al-Mabsut fi Furu' al-Fiqh (An Extensive Book on Branches of Fiqh).
  • Kitab al-Muyassar fi al-Kalam (Elementary Hand-book for Dialectical Theology), a manuscript of which still survives.[4]

He also wrote on Tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis).

Teachers

Al-Bazdawi studied under Shams al-A'imma 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Halwani (d. 456/1064) who was also a teacher to Al-Sarakhsi.[2]

Students
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gollark: Somewhat, sure. But amateur radio isn't exactly just "phones but older and worse", you can communicate without the infrastructure, interact with satellites and such, and learn about electronics. Using VHS stuff seems to just be... nostalgia?
gollark: Although I could maybe use good noise cancelling ones.
gollark: I am not going down the path of audiophiles, where I have to spend significant amounts of money for marginal audio quality gains which I'll then just get used to anyway.
gollark: no.

See also

References
  1. "Al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya fi Tabaqat al-Hanafiyya, by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Qurashi".
  2. Hanif, Sohail, 2019, "Al-Hadith al-Mashhur: A Hanafi Reference to Kufan Practice?", in Locating the Shari'a: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice by Sohaira Siddiqui (ed.), Brill Publications, Leiden, 2019.
  3. "A Brief Biography of Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi".
  4. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1992). History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Age of Achievement. Part 2. Unesco. p. 128. ISBN 9789231036545.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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