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Adud al-Din al-Iji

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Adud al-Din al-Iji, in full Abu al-Fadl Adud al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Iji, was a fourteenth-century Islamic scholar of the Ilkhanate period. He served as an influential judge and Shafii jurist as well as a legal theoretician, linguist, and rhetorician, and is considered the leading Asharite theologian of his time, active at the Ilkhanate court in Tabriz and Sultaniyya and later as chief judge in Shiraz.

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Role
Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period 1
Birthplace
Ij 2
Place of Death
Ij 2
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Field of Law
Islamic Law (Sharia and Fiqh) 1
Gender
Male 1
Role
Role (category)
Judge 1
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1. Adud al-Din al-Iji (Wikipedia)
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  • Introduction, gender
    He was an influential judge, Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, linguist, rhetorician and is considered the leading Ash'arite theologian of his time.
  • Introduction, role
    Abū al-Faḍl Aḍud al-Din 'Abd al-Raḥman b.
  • Full article, field of law
    Although he wrote several texts in a variety of fields such as legal hermeneutics, grammar (usul al-Din, Usul al-Fiqh, and Usul al-Lugha), and trivium philosophical theology, his two most renowned students, Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani and Sa'ad al-Din al-Taftazani, wrote insightful commentary on this work, ensuring that the framework established by kitab al-Mawaqif would become fundamental to Sunni theology for centuries to come.
  • In Legal System: Sharia, Introduction
    Abd al-Ghaffar al-Ījī (1281-1356), better known as Aḍud al-Din al-Ījī (Arabic: عضد الدين الإيجي) was an Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period.
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2. Wikidata: Adud al-Din al-Iji
  • Wikidata Q12227337, P19 place of birth claim
    P19 (place of birth): Ij
  • Wikidata Q12227337, P20 place of death claim
    P20 (place of death): Ij
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