At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- JuristTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Jamal al-Din Abd Allah ibn Miqdad ibn Isma'il al-Aqfahsi al-Qahiri al-Maliki, a Maliki jurist. The "Encyclopaedia of the Biographies of Scholars and Men of Letters" says that the leadership of the Maliki school and the giving of fatwas in Egypt ended with him in his time, and that he held the judgeship. It gives his birth as 745 AH and his death as 823 AH. 1
The data goes no further than this; a second source is needed.
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-allah-ibn-miqdad-al-aqfahsi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.