Ibn Aqil
Ibn Aqil | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | AH 431 (1039/1040)[1] |
| Died | AH 513 (1119/1120)[1] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Denomination | Sunni Muslim |
| School | Hanbali[1] |
| Creed | Ash'ari[2] |
| Main interest(s) | History, Tafsir, Hadith and Fiqh |
| Occupation | Muslim scholar |
Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi (1040–1119) was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. He was trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (madhab) for eleven years under scholars such as the Qadi Abu Ya'la.[1] Despite this, Ibn Aqil was forced into hiding by the Hanbalis for frequenting the circles of groups who were at odds with the Hanbali tradition.[1] In one of his reminiscences, he remarks that his Hanbali companions wanted him to abandon the company of certain scholars, and complains that it hindered him from acquiring useful knowledge.[1]
Creed[]
Ibn 'Aqil leaned strongly toward Ash'arism; he had signed, around 455, the fatwa protesting against its persecution, and it was he who, in 476, performed the ablutions on the body of his friend, Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, the Ash'arite rector of the Nizamiyya. His forced retraction represents one episode in the struggle carried on by conservative Hanbalites against Ash'arite Shafi'ites, who got back at them five years later when Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi succeeded in getting Abu Ja'far ibn Abi Musa arrested.[2]
Works[]
Among his works of jurisprudence that have survived are Wadih fi usul al-fiqh and (in part) Kitab al-funun, a huge collection of anecdotes about the attitudes and customs of his times, in one hundred volumes.[2][3]
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Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Lewis, B.; Menage, V.L.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. (1986) [1st. pub. 1971]. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume III (H-Iram) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 699. ISBN 9004081186.
|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Jump up to: a b c Louis Massignon (2019). The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2: The Survival of Al-Hallaj. Translated by Herbert Mason. Princeton University Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780691657219.
- ^ John L. Esposito, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2003, and George Makdisi (ed.), The Notebooks of Ibn 'Aqil: Kitab al Funun, 2 vols., Beirut 1970-71
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- Asharis
- Hanbalis
- 12th-century Muslim theologians
- Sunni imams
- Sunni Muslim scholars
- 11th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
- 11th-century Muslim theologians
- 1040 births
- 1119 deaths