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Abu Nasr ibn al-Hannat al-Shirazi

أبو نصر ابن الحناط الشيرازي

Abu Nasr ibn al-Hannat al-Shirazi studied fiqh under his father Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat; a jurist and theorist of legal method (usuli), eloquent, a Sufi and a poet, he died at Fayd on the road to Mecca. He wrote many works on fiqh and its principles, and the jurists of Shiraz learned from him 1. The book relates that he, or his father, spoke in a session of disputation and impressed those present; Abu Sa'd Bishr ibn al-Husayn al-Dawudi objected to him, and he answered with what the book transmits 1. The author (al-Shirazi) does not record the year of his death.

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Jurist · Scholar · Poet · mystic
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Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Abu Nasr ibn al-Hannat al-Shirazi, a jurist and theologian of eloquent speech, a Sufi and a poet. He took jurisprudence from his father Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat. 1

He died at Fayd on the road to Mecca and left many works on jurisprudence and its principles, and the jurists of Shiraz took from him. 1

The book relates that he, or his father, spoke in a session of disputation and impressed those present. Abu Sa'd Bishr ibn al-Husayn al-Dawudi objected to him and he answered. 1

Al-Shirazi does not give the year of his death, which needs an additional source.

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  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p. 64
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Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat al-Shirazi

Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat al-Shirazi, a jurist of Fars. Al-Shirazi gives neither his date of death nor his teachers. The editor's note in the book says the edition prints the name as 'al-Khayyat', while manuscript (ع) has the undotted letter, that is, al-Hannat.