Al-Tahawi

Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī
ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ
Personal
Born853 CE / 239 AH[1]
Taha al Amidah, Abbasid Caliphate
Died5 November 933 CE / 14 Dhul Qa’ada 321 AH[1]
Cairo, Abbasid Caliphate
ReligionIslam
EraAbbasid Caliphate
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi[2][3][4] (formerly Shafi'i)
Main interest(s)Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology, Hadith
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī)[5] (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an Egyptian Arab[6][7][8] Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian.[9] He studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. He is known for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of Sunni Islamic creed[10][11] which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.[12]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Sharif was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2009). Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Foundations of Islam). Oneworld Publications. p. 166. ISBN 978-1851686636.
  3. ^ Hiroyuki, Concept Of Territory In Islamic Thought, p 56. ISBN 1136184538
  4. ^ Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index, p 6. ISBN 0415966914
  5. ^ Calder, N. (2012-04-24). "al-Ṭaḥāwī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
  6. ^ Ibn-Ḫallikān, Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad (1843). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, 1. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
  7. ^ Ingrid Mattson (2013). The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life. John Wiley & Sons. p. 146. ISBN 9781118257098.
  8. ^ Shafiq Abouzayd, ed. (2014). ARAM: Zoroastrianism in the Levant and the Amorites. Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. p. 195. ISBN 9781326717438.
  9. ^ El Shamsy, Ahmed (2007). "The First Shāfiʿī: The Traditionalist Legal Thought of Abū Yaʿqūb al-buwayṭī (d. 231/846)". Islamic Law and Society. 14 (3). Brill Publishers: 327. JSTOR 40377944 – via JSTOR. Al-Tahawi became a Hanafi, but his methodology in both law and theology retained a distinctively traditionalist character.
  10. ^ Masooda Bano (2020). The Revival of Islamic Rationalism: Logic, Metaphysics and Mysticism in Modern Muslim Societies. Cambridge University Press. p. 82. ISBN 9781108485319.
  11. ^ Scott C. Lucas (2004). Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam: The Legacy of the Generation of Ibn Sa'd, Ibn Ma'in, and Ibn Hanbal. Brill Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 9789004133198.
  12. ^ Oliver Leaman (2015). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472569462.