Ibn Ashur — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur; used for entity facts only. Its infobox gives denomination 'Sunni', jurisprudence 'Maliki' (citing M. Nafi 2005, p. 12) and creed 'Ash'ari' (p. 22); the body gives his birth in Tunis in 1879 and death in August 1973, his Zaytuna education and career, the Shaykh al-Islam title in 1932, his tafsir al-Tahrir wa'l-Tanwir and Maqasid al-Shari'ah al-Islamiyyah, and his refusal of Bourguiba's requested Ramadan fatwa. The body text names no school for him.