At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- 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
Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him) al-Isnawi, a Shafi'i jurist from Isna in Upper Egypt. He memorised the Qur'an and al-Shirazi's "al-Tanbih" in its mosque. He was born in 704 AH (1305 CE) and died in 772 AH (1371 CE). 1
Both dates rest on one source and 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 , p.681
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Isnawi, Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Hasan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-isnawi-abd-al-rahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.