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Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi

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Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi
أبو الليث السمرقندي
Personal life
Born944
Died983 (aged 38–39)
EraIslamic Golden Age
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Aqidah
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi

Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn Muhammad al-Samarqandi (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي, romanizedʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī; 944–983) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school and Quran commentator, who lived during the second half of the 10th century.[1]

Works

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Al-Samarqandī authored various books on theology and juridical works, including Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, بحر العلوم, a Quran exegesis, also known as Tafsīr as-Samarqandi; Tanbīh al-Ġāfilīn, تنبيه الغافلين;[citation needed] and the nawāzil-collections Kitāb al-Nawāzil fi al-furūʿ and Mukhtaṣar (which stand as unusual examples of Hanafi nawāzil, in a genre usually associated with the Maliki school of Islamic jurispriudence).[2]

Studies and editions

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  • Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī: Le traité Arabe Muḳaddima d'Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī en version Mamelouk-Kiptchak. - Warszawa : Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1962
  • Daiber, Hans: The Islamic concept of belief in the 4th/10th century : Abū l-Laiṯ as-Samarkandī's commentary on Abū Ḥanīfa (died 150/767) al-Fiqh al-absāṭ / Introduction, text and commentary by Hans Daiber. Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1995 (Studia Culturae Islamicae; 52)
  • Mangera, Abdur-Rahman (2013). A critical edition of Abū 'l-Layth al-Samarqandī's Nawāzil. SOAS, University of London (phd). doi:10.25501/SOAS.00017840. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

Notes

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References

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  1. ^ Pakatchi, Ahmad; Rabbani, Translated by Azar (2015-10-16), "Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī", Encyclopaedia Islamica, Brill, retrieved 2023-06-29
  2. ^ Ed., 'Nāzila', in P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online (EI-2 English). Brill . (2012). https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_5873.


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