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Qawam al-Din al-Kaki

قوام الدين الكاكي

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sinjari al-Khujandi, known as Qawam al-Din al-Kaki: a Hanafi jurist and legal theorist. He studied with Ala al-Din Abd al-Aziz al-Bukhari, reading al-Hidaya with him, and with Husam al-Din Hasan al-Sighnaqi. He reached Cairo and then taught and issued fatwas at the Mosque of Mardin until his death in 749 AH. Works attributed to him include Mi'raj al-Dirayat (a commentary on al-Hidaya) and Jami al-Asrar (a commentary on al-Manar). 1

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni (Hanafi)
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Summary

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sinjari al-Khujandi, known as Qawam al-Din al-Kaki: a Hanafi jurist and legal theorist. He studied with Ala al-Din Abd al-Aziz al-Bukhari, reading al-Hidaya with him, and with Husam al-Din Hasan al-Sighnaqi. He reached Cairo and then taught and issued fatwas at the Mosque of Mardin until his death in 749 AH. Works attributed to him include Mi'raj al-Dirayat (a commentary on al-Hidaya) and Jami al-Asrar (a commentary on al-Manar). 1

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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)· 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. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7163
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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.