Abu al-Walīd Ibn al-Shihna (''Lisān ad-Dīn ʾAbū'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Kamāladdīn Muḥammad ibn aš-Šiḥna al-Halabī al-Ḥanafī'', 1348–1412;
AH 749–815) was a
Mamluk-era Syrian
Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
scholar and historian.
His ''Rawḍ al-manāẓir fī ʿilm al-awāʾil wa l-awāẖir'' ("Garden of the spectacles of the history of antiquity and modernity")
[Paris, BnF arabe 1539-1541; London, BL, Or. Add. 23,336.] details the talks he held with
Timur
Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kü ...
as the representative of the scholars of
Aleppo after Timur's conquest of Aleppo in 1400.
His son, ''Muḥibb ad-Dīn ʾAbū al-Fadl Muḥammad Ibn aš-Šiḥna al-Halabī'' (1402–1485) was the chief judge of Aleppo for the Hanafi school of law.
References
*Souad Soghbini (ed.), ''Mamluk Sudies'' 14, Bonn (2017).
*Esra Atmaca, ''Turkish Studies'' 13/16 (Summer 2018), 21–34, {{doi, 10.7827/TurkishStudies.14051
External links
BnF arabe 1539isidore.science
1348 births
1412 deaths
Syrian scholars
Hanafi fiqh scholars