Sirāj ud-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd Sajāwandī (
Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: محمد ابن محمد ابن عبدالرشید سجاوندی) also known as Abū Tāhir Muhammad al-Sajāwandī al-Hanafī (
Arabic
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: ابی طاهر محمد السجاوندي الحنفي) and the honorific Sirāj ud-Dīn (سراج الدین, "lamp of the faith") (died c. 1203 CE or 600 AH)
was a 12th-century
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 aft ...
scholar of
Islamic inheritance jurisprudence
Islamic Inheritance jurisprudence is a field of Islamic jurisprudence ( ar, فقه) that deals with inheritance, a topic that is prominently dealt with in the Qur'an. It is often called ''Mīrāth'', and its branch of Islamic law is technically ...
, mathematics
astrology and geography. He is primarily known for his work ''Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah'' (
Arabic
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:کتاب الفرائض السراجیه), commonly known simply as "the ''Sirājīyah''", which is a principal work on
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 aft ...
inheritance law.
The work was translated into English by
Sir William Jones
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of th ...
in 1792 for subsequent use in the courts of British India.
He was the grand-nephew of
qari Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi
ʿAbū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad Ibn ʿAbū Yazīd Tayfūr Sajāvandī Ghaznavī ( fa, ابو عبدالله محمد ابن ابو یزید طیفور سجاوندی غزنوی), also known as Abū al-Fazl as-Sajāwandī al-Qāriʾ ( ar, أبو ا ...
. He lies buried in the ''Ziārat-e Hazrat-o 'Āshiqān wa Ārifān'' in
Sajawand Sajāwand (Dari/Pashto: سجاوند) is a village in Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan.
Name
Sajāwand was known in the early Islamic era as ''Sakāwand'' or ''Sagāwand'' (Persian: سکاوند\سگاوند), also ''Shakāwand' ...
.
Name
His full name is ''Sirāj ud-Dīn Abū Tāhir Muḥammad Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr Sajāwandī'' (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: سراج الدین محمد سجاوندی).
His
nasab
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, ''Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr'' refers to him being the "son of Muhammad son of 'Abd ur-Rashīd son of Tayfour". ''Sajāwandī'' is his
nisbah meaning "from
Sajawand Sajāwand (Dari/Pashto: سجاوند) is a village in Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan.
Name
Sajāwand was known in the early Islamic era as ''Sakāwand'' or ''Sagāwand'' (Persian: سکاوند\سگاوند), also ''Shakāwand' ...
". He is also known by the
teknonym
Teknonymy (from grc-gre, τέκνον, "child" and grc-gre, ὄνομα, label=none, "name"), is the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children. This practice can be found in many different cultures around the world. The term ...
''Abū Tāhir'' meaning "father of Tahir".
Works
* ''Kitāb al-Farāʼiẓ al-Sirājīyah'' (''The Sirajite Book of Inhertiance laws'', کتاب الفرائض السراجیه) a.k.a. ''al-Sirājīyah'' ("The Sirajite")
* ''al-Tajnīs Fī al-Hasāb'' (''The Analogy for the Calculations'' , کتاب التجنیس فی الحساب)
* ''Resālat Fī al-Jabr wa al-Muqābilah'' (''Treatise on Algebra'' , رسالة فی الجبر و المقابله)
References
External links
Al Sirajiyyah: Or the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance Jones, William (Calcutta, 1792)
Hanafi fiqh scholars
People from Logar Province
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Mathematicians who worked on Islamic inheritance
12th-century Iranian mathematicians
1203 deaths
12th-century Arabic writers
Ghaznavid scholars
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
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