Qarāfī, Aḥmad ibn Idrīs, -1285

شهاب الدين ابو العباس الصنهاجي البهنسي القرافي

found: His al-Umnīyah fī idrāk al-nīyah, 1984:t.p. (Aḥmad ibn Idrīs al-Mālikī al-shahīr bi-al-Qarāfī)

found: His al-Istighnāʼ fī aḥkām al-istithnāʼ, 1982:t.p. (Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (t 682 H)

found: Nafāʼis al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-Maḥṣūl, 1997:v. 1, t.p. (al-imām al-faqīh Shihāb al-Dīn Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Idrīs ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣinhājī al-Miṣrī al-maʻrūf bi-al-Qarāfī; d. 684 H)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Qarafi, Shihab al-Din al-; Shihab al-Din Abu al-ʻAbbas Ahmad b. Idris b. ʻAbd al-Rahman b. Yallin; legal scholar, North African jurist, author; born 1228 in Deir al-Tin quarter of Cairo, Egypt; regarded as one of the great theoreticians of the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence; studied with Ibn ʻAbd al-Salam al-Muhadhdhab (d. 1262), Shams al-Din b. ʻAli b. Surur (d. 1277), al-Sharif al-Karaki (d. 1290 or 1291) who granted him a license to issue formal legal opinions; appointed to the Maliki chair at Salihiyya madrasa in Cairo; assumed a position of leadership among the Maliki jurists of his day; authored two dozen works during his lifetime and most significant was: Kitab al-ihkam fi tamyiz al-fatawa ʻan al-ahkam wa tasarrufat al-qadi wa al-imam (The Book of Perfecting the Distinction between Legal Responsa, Judicial Decisions and the Discretionary Actions of Judges and Caliphs) (1262); his career coincided with the rise and fall of twelve different regimes, divided almost equally between two dynasties, the Ayyubids and the Mamluks; died 1285 in Cairo, Egypt)

found: The criterion for distinguishing legal opinions from judicial rulings and the administrative acts of judges and rulers, 2017 :t.p. (Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Idrīs al-Qarāfī al-Mālikī)