Abu al-Walid al-Baji (or Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa`d or Sa`dun ibn Ayyub, al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujaybi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Baji al-Tamimi al-Dhahabi al-Maliki) (c. 1013–c. 1081) was a famous
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 and poet from
Beja,
Al-Andalus
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.
Al-Baji worked at various times as a watchman and a goldsmith to support himself. He was a contemporary of the jurist
Ibn Hazm
Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ( ar, أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī; 7 November 994 – 15 August 1064Ibn Hazm. ' (Preface). Tr ...
. He died in 1081.
Bibliography
By Abu al-Walid al-Baji:
*'' Al-Tasdid ila Ma`rifa al-Tawhid''
*'' Sunan al-Minhaj''
*''Tartib al-Hajj''
*''Ihkam al-Fusul fi Ahkam al-Usul''
*''al-Ta`dil wa al-Tajrih li man Kharraja `anhu al-Bukhari fi al-Sahih''
*''Sharh al-Muwatta' in two versions: al-Istifa' and its abridgment al-Muntaqa
*''Sunan al-Salihin''
*''Tahqiq al-madhhab''. Ed.
Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri.
Riyadh
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: 1983.
Maribel Fierro
Dr. María Isabel Fierro Bello (born 1956) is a researcher on Middle Eastern studies at the Spanish National Research Council's humanities branch in Madrid, Spain.[Salma Jayyusi
Salma Khadra Jayyusi ( ar, سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; born 1926 or 1927) is a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. She is the founder and director of the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA), which aims to provi ...]
. Leiden
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: Brill Publishers, 1994.
See also
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List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
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List of Muslim theologians
This is a list of notable Muslim theologians.
Traditional Theologians and Philosophers Ash'aris and Maturidis
* Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
* Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
* Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi
* Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi
* Shahab_al-Din_Abu_Hafs_Um ...
References
External links
* Sunnah.or
ABU AL-WALID AL-BAJI by Dr. G. F. Haddad
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1010s births
1081 deaths
11th-century Arabs
Asharis
Maliki scholars of Al-Andalus
11th-century Al-Andalus writers
People from Beja, Portugal
11th-century jurists
11th-century Muslim theologians
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