Ibn Abī Zayd () (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a
Maliki
The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...
scholar from
Kairouan in
Tunisia
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and was also an active proponent of
Ash'ari
Ashʿarī theology or Ashʿarism (; ar, الأشعرية: ) is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Muslim scholar, Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer, and scholastic theologian Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in the ...
thought.
[Herbert J. Liebesny, ''The Law of the Near & Middle East'', SUNY Press, 1975 , p. 175] His best known work is ''Al-Risala'' or the Epistle, an instructional book devoted to the education of young children. He was a member of the Nafzawah Berber tribe and lived in
Kairouan. In addition, he served as the
Imam
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(spiritual leader) of one of the
mosque
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s' that followed the
Maliki
The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...
School tradition. Based on what he wrote in his Risalah regarding creed, there was many alignments with the Ashari creed. Ibn Abi Zayd notably defended the ashari school in his epistle entitled “''Al-Radd `ala al-Qadariyya wa Munaqada Risala al-Baghdadi al-Mu`tazili'',” a refutation of the attacks of the ''Mu`tazili'' `Ali ibn Isma`il al-Baghdadi.
See also
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Al-Risalah al-Fiqhiyyah
References
External links
islaam.org.uk "Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qairawani (d.386H)", by Hassan Ahmad, from ''al-Jumuah Magazine'', Volume 12 Issue 9(retrieved September 12, 2008)
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Rahman, Sayeed, The Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (Yale University Ph.D., 2009) is the most comprehensive English language work on Ibn Abi Zayd
Asharis
Berber scholars
Tunisian Maliki scholars
10th-century jurists
10th-century Berber people
922 births
996 deaths
10th-century Muslim theologians
People from Kairouan
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