Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi

Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī
(شهاب الدين القرافي)
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī; (شهاب الدين القرافي)
Title	Shihāb al-Dīn
Personal
Born	1228; Bahfashīm, Ayyubid dynasty
Died	1285 (aged 56–57); Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
Religion	Islam
Region	Egypt
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Maliki
Creed	Ash'ari
Main interest(s)	Islamic theology, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Tafsir, Arabic grammar
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Malik ibn Anas; Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari; Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam; Ibn al-Hajib; al-Mundhiri;

Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī (Arabic: شهاب الدين القرافي) (also known as simply known as Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī or al-Qarāfī, 1228–1285), was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Sanhaja Berber origin who lived in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt. He is widely regarded as the foremost Maliki juristconsult and legal theoretician of his time.^[2] He was highly proficient in scriptural exegesis, Islamic theology, grammar, lexicography, literature, ophthalmology, astronomy and mathematics.^[3] During his lifetime, al-Qarafi was hailed as one of the greatest scholars.^[4] He is considered to be one of the prominent influential thinkers and pioneers. According to Ibn Farhun, Shafi'ites and Malikites were unanimous that the best scholars in Egypt were three in number: al-Qarafi in Old Cairo, Ibn al-Munayyir in Alexandria, and Ibn Daqiq al-'Id in Fatimid Cairo. Imam al-Suyuti counted him among the scholars who attained the rank of mujtahid mutlaq [ar] (absolute/autonomous ijtihad).^[5]

^ ^a ^b Böwering, Gerhard; Crone, Patricia; Mirza, Mahan (2013). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0691134840.
^ Necva B. Kazimov, Fathi Malkawi , mohamad Fauzan Noordin, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Glenn E. Perry, Pernille Ironside. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 20. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). p. 166.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur (2006). Ibn Ashur - Treatise on Maqāṣid Al-Shariʻah. International Institute of Islamic Thought. p. 344. ISBN 9781565644229.
^ Gavin N. Picken (2011). Islamic Law: Consolidation and 'stagnation'. Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 9780415472814.
^ Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella 2015, p. 40

[PEIPT-1] Böwering, Gerhard; Crone, Patricia; Mirza, Mahan (2013). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0691134840.

[2] Necva B. Kazimov, Fathi Malkawi , mohamad Fauzan Noordin, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Glenn E. Perry, Pernille Ironside. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 20. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). p. 166.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Ashur-3] Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur (2006). Ibn Ashur - Treatise on Maqāṣid Al-Shariʻah. International Institute of Islamic Thought. p. 344. ISBN 9781565644229.

[4] Gavin N. Picken (2011). Islamic Law: Consolidation and 'stagnation'. Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 9780415472814.

[rank-5] Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella 2015, p. 40

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