At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- 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
Abu al-Abbas Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Imad al-Aqfahsi al-Qahiri al-Shafi'i, known as al-Imad, a Shafi'i jurist of Cairo. 1
The encyclopaedia gives his death as 808 AH (1405 CE). The sources did not record his birth date precisely. His works and teachers need an additional source.
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. “Ahmad ibn Imad al-Aqfahsi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-imad-al-aqfahsi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.