Al-Jaziri (Ali ibn Yahya al-Sinhaji)

الجزيري (علي بن يحيى الصنهاجي)

Ali ibn Yahya ibn al-Qasim al-Sinhaji, Abu al-Hasan, al-Jaziri, a Maliki jurist who settled in al-Jazira al-Khadra in al-Andalus, became its judge, and taught fiqh and drew up contracts. His book al-Maqsid al-mahmud fi talkhis al-uqud is on contracts. The header gives 585 AH, about sixty years of age. 1

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Roles
Jurist
Counted among
Sunni (Maliki)
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Summary

Ali ibn Yahya ibn al-Qasim al-Sinhaji, Abu al-Hasan, al-Jaziri, a Maliki jurist who settled in al-Jazira al-Khadra in al-Andalus and became its judge. 1 He taught fiqh and drew up contracts; his book al-Maqsid al-mahmud fi talkhis al-uqud is on contracts.

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.15814
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