Home›Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence›Field of Law›Islamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Browse ByIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)This dimension groups jurists by the field of law in which they specialized, such as constitutional law, contract law or criminal law. Wikipedia notes a jurist may work as "a legal scholar, a judge, or a lawyer," each of whom typically focuses their career on one or two specific fields. Browsing this way collects every jurist known for the same field.FactsIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonDefining CharacteristicWell-attestedJurisprudence, also known as legal theory or legal science, is the philosophy of law. 1Islamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Filter Results124 entriesRoleAll11th-century merchant, jurist, and muhaddith (1)11th-century North African Islamic theologian and jurist (1)12th-century Iraqi Arab official and a Hanbali jurist (1)14th-century Arab Muslim scholar (1)8th-century CE Libyan Muslim jurist from Tripoli (1)Andalusian Muslim polymath from Córdoba in Al-Andalus (1)Andalusí Sunni Islamic scholar (1)Andalusī Muslim judge and scholar with Ṣūfī tendencies (1)Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar (1)Arab Mālikī faqīh (jurist) of Medina (1)Arab poet, logician, astronomer and Maliki jurist (1)Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad (1)Diplomat (1)Early Kufan jurist of the tabi'in (1)Early Muslim jurist (1)Early Muslim 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and Fiqh)Abu al-Hassan al-LakhmiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Ali Hassan al-Mani'iIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu al-Layth al-SamarqandiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu al-Qasim al-BaghawiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'iIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu al-Tayyib al-TabariIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Bakr al-AjurriIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Bakr al-KhassafIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Bakr al-MalikiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Bakr al-TurtushiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Hafs Umar al-NasafiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Ishaq al-IsfarayiniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Ishaq al-ShatibiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Mansur al-BaghdadiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Muhammad al-JuwayniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Saeed Mubarak MakhzoomiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Talib al-MakkiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Uthman al-SabuniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu Yala ibn al-FarraIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu YusufIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Abu-l-Hasan al-TamgrutiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Adud al-Din al-IjiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ahmad al-WansharisiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ahmad Baba al-TimbuktiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ahmad SirhindiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ala al-Din al-BajiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-AkhdariIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-Allama al-HilliIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-BaghawiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-BarzanjiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-BayhaqiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-DaraqutniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-Hakim al-TirmidhiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-HattabIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ali ibn Qasim al-ZaqqaqIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ali ibn ZiyadIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-JassasIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-JuwayniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-Khatib al-BaghdadiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-Khatib al-ShirbiniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-MahalliIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Al-MarghinaniIslamic Law (Sharia and 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(Sharia and Fiqh)Ishaq ibn RahwayhIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Isho'bokhtIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-SalamIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Jabir ibn ZaydIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Jalal al-Din al-QazwiniIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Khalil ibn Ishaq al-JundiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)MaimonidesIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Maimul Ahsan KhanIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Makki ibn Abi Talib al-QaysiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Mohammad Hashim KamaliIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Moses IsserlesIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Muhammad AbduhIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Muhammad bin Dawud al-ZahiriIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Muhammad ibn Yahya al-JanziIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-SanusiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Muhammad MayyaraIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Qadi Abd al-WahhabIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Qadi BaydawiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Qadi IyadIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi BakrIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Rabbeinu GershomIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Said ibn al-MusayyibIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Shihab al-Din al-QarafiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Taqi al-Din al-FasiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Ubadah ibn al-SamitIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Umm al-Darda as-SughraIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Urwa ibn al-ZubayrIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Waggag ibn Zallu al-LamtiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Yahya ibn AkthamIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Zain al-Din al-'IraqiIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Zakariyya al-AnsariIslamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh)Sources1. 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