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Shams al-A'imma al-Awjandi

شمس الأئمة الأوزجندي

Mahmud ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Awjandi, the qadi, a Hanafi jurist bearing the titles Shams al-A'imma and Shaykh al-Islam, and the grandfather of Qadi Khan. 1 He studied fiqh under Shams al-A'imma al-Sarakhsi, who died in 483 AH. 1 The text gives no dates of birth or death. 1

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Development of law, theology and institutions

Summary

Mahmud ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Awjandi, the qadi, a Hanafi jurist bearing the titles Shams al-A'imma and Shaykh al-Islam, and the grandfather of Qadi Khan. 1 He studied fiqh under Shams al-A'imma al-Sarakhsi, who died in 483 AH. 1 The text gives no dates of birth or death. 1

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

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16249
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Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)

In the lexicon, add is gripping a thing with the teeth and holding it. If a person bites another without right and a wound results, the biter must pay the damages for the wound, assessed as a just award by experts. If one man bites another's hand and the bitten man pulls it free so that the biter's front teeth fall out, most jurists hold that there is no liability, relying on a prophetic judgement in such a case; the Shafi'is limit this to a bitten man who chose the easiest means of release, and the preferred Maliki view requires compensation.