Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra () is a voluminous encyclopedic

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written by the

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Taj al-Din al-Subki Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (), or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī () or simply Ibn al-Subki (1327–1370) was a leading Sunni Islamic scholar based in Egypt and Levant. He was a highly regarded jur ...

(d. 771/1370), in which he presents biographies of scholars of the Shafi'i legal school in

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, from the time of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820) all the way to his own contemporary time. The work also chronicles the history of the

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of thought, since its beginning with

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(d. 324/936) all the way to Taj al-Din al-Subki's own era; because most of the Ash'ari scholars are following the Shafi'i school of

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The work is divided into seven classes ( tabaqat), as follows: # Those who were students (disciples) of Imam al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), the founder of the

Shafi'i school The Shafi'i school or Shafi'i Madhhab () or Shafi'i is one of the four major schools of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), belonging to the Ahl al-Hadith tradition within Sunni Islam. It was founded by the Muslim scholar, jurist, and traditionis ...

. # Those who died between 200 AH and 300 AH. # Those who died between 300 AH and 400 AH. # Those who died between 400 AH and 500 AH. # Those who died between 500 AH and 600 AH. # Those who died between 600 AH and 700 AH. # Those who died after 700 AH. In the last volume, al-Subki devotes about 150 pages to his own father,

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Taqi al-Din al-Subki Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī (), commonly known as Taqī l-Dīn al-Subkī () was a Sunni Egyptian polymath and foremost leading Shafi'i jurisconsult, traditionist, Quranic exegete, l ...

(d. 756/1355).

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wrote three different works on this same subject, a large work entitled, 'Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra', a more summarized edition called, 'Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Wusta', and the most shortened edition called, 'Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Sughra'. These tabaqat (“classes” or “generations”) of scholars by him have the fame of being the best biographies of Shafi'i scholars ever written.

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