At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Maghreb
- 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
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa al-Sharif al-Masakini, a jurist and educator from Tunis, who founded a school at the end of the Husaynid state. 1
His dates
The "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters" gives his birth as 1080 AH (around 1669 CE) and his death as 1172 AH (around 1758 CE). 1
Notes for researchers
- The information is scarce and comes from one secondary reference; it needs 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. “Ali ibn Muhammad al-Masakini”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-muhammad-al-masakini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.