Al-Shirazi composes al-Luma', al-Tanbih and Tabaqat al-fuqaha, c. 450-453/1058-1061

الشيرازي يصنف اللمع والتنبيه وطبقات الفقهاء، نحو ٤٥٠-٤٥٣هـ

c. 1058 CE · 450 AH – c. 1061 CE · 453 AH

Baghdad

About 450/1058 al-Shirazi composed his manual of usul al-fiqh, al-Luma'; between 452/1060 and 453/1061 he wrote the fiqh epitome al-Tanbih, which drew more than seventy commentaries; and about 452/1060 he composed Tabaqat al-fuqaha, one of the oldest surviving works of its genre, recording the mujtahid jurists of all schools before tabaqat literature narrowed to a single madhhab 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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1050106010701080 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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About 450/1058 al-Shirazi composed his manual of usul al-fiqh, al-Luma'; between 452/1060 and 453/1061 he wrote the fiqh epitome al-Tanbih, which drew more than seventy commentaries; and about 452/1060 he composed Tabaqat al-fuqaha, one of the oldest surviving works of its genre, recording the mujtahid jurists of all schools before tabaqat literature narrowed to a single madhhab 1.

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Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
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Baghdad

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Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 p. 495
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Al-Shirazi's arrival in Baghdad, 415/1024

In 415/1024 Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was in Baghdad, attending the classes of the jurist al-Qazwini (d. 440/1048), a proponent of the legal thinking developed by al-Baqillani, and — more significantly — becoming the leading disciple and accredited assistant (mu'id) of the qadi Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari (d. 450/1058).