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Hamid Afandi, mufti of the Sultanic seat

حميد أفندي مفتي التخت

c. October 1577 CE · Sha'ban 985 AH

Molla Hamid Afandi — Abu al-Su'ud's successor as mufti of the Sultanic seat; 'among the excellent men of letters, lavish in alms, fierce for the right,' chronically ill until he died at the start of Sha'ban 985 1.

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Roles
Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Summary

Mawla Hamid Afandi, mufti of the imperial throne after Mawlana Abu'l-Su'ud; the Kawakib says: among the virtuous men of letters, much given in charity, a fierce champion of truth; he was ailing until he died at the start of Sha'ban. 1

People and things also explored

Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· Stoning (rajm) as a penalty for zina· Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Aman (safe-conduct granted to enemies in war)· Amana (trust, deposit and what is entrusted)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 408
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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.