At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab ibn Arabshah
The chief judge Taj al-Din Abd al-Wahhab was born in the year 813. He was the son of the historian and scholar Shihab al-Din Ibn Arabshah, a Hanafi. At the start of his career he worked as a notary witness, and he became very skilled in that craft. He began poor but gained wealth and standing, and he composed a large book on Hanafi law 1.
He was appointed chief judge of Damascus in Rajab of the year 884, and he was removed from the post in Shawwal of the year 895. He then travelled to Egypt, where he was given the shaykhdom of the Sarghatmishiyya, and he held it until his death on the fifteenth of Rajab in the year 901 1.
Connections
- Child of
- Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Arabshah
People and things also explored
Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Arabshah· 'Ata' Allah, Sultan Selim II's teacher· Isma'il al-Nabulsi, mufti of Damascus· Taqi al-Din Ibn Qadi 'Ajlun· al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 421-422
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