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This dimension sorts jurists by the specific role they held, a judge, a legal scholar or a practicing lawyer. Wikipedia notes that the term jurist "can refer to a legal scholar, a judge, or a lawyer" depending on jurisdiction. Browsing by role compares jurists who did the same kind of legal work.

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Defining Characteristic

Jurisprudence, also known as legal theory or legal science, is the philosophy of law. 1

Role

11th-century author, scholar, and diarist from Baghdad

11th-century merchant, jurist, and muhaddith

11th-century North African Islamic theologian and jurist

12th-century Iraqi Arab official and a Hanbali jurist

14th century Hanbali jurist and Muhaddith from the Levant

14th-century Arab Muslim scholar

14th-century Swedish magnate and High Constable of Sweden

8th-century CE Libyan Muslim jurist from Tripoli

Academician, legal scholar, Professor of International law

And British social anthropologist

And Soviet criminologist and legal historian

Andalusī Muslim judge and scholar with Ṣūfī tendencies

Andalusí Sunni Islamic scholar

Andalusian Muslim polymath from Córdoba in Al-Andalus

Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian

Arab historian and Shāfiʿī jurist

Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar

Arab Mālikī faqīh (jurist) of Medina

Arab poet, logician, astronomer and Maliki jurist

Arab Sunni Islamic scholar from the 15th century

Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad

Archbishop of Seville and scholar

Archbishop of York

Assistant Librarian, Library of Congress

Bishop of Zaragoza

-born American jurist and political scientist

Born English churchman, monk and scholar

Businesswoman and lawyer

Byzantine jurist and canonist

Byzantine priest and judge

Canon regular and abbot

Catalan Carmelite canon lawyer and scholastic philosopher

Celebrated Galician canonist

Claimant for the Norwegian throne

Diplomat

Doctor of law and professor

Dramatist and author

Early Kufan jurist of the tabi'in

Early Muslim jurist

Early Muslim jurist and theologian

Early Sunni Islamic scholar

Eleventh-century Maliki scholar and Athari theologian

Eminent Polish Ashkenazi rabbi, talmudist, and posek

eponym of the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence

Famous jurist in the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic Law

Famous Talmudist and Halakhist

founder of the Thawri school of Islamic jurisprudence

founder of the Zahiri school of thought

founding figure of the Ibadis, first imam

Fourteenth-century Islamic scholar

Friar

Hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and Sufi mystic

Hanbali Islamic scholar

Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi mystic leader

Hanbali Sunni Muslim theologian from Iraq

Hanbali theologian and jurisconsult born at 'Ukbara in 304/c

Highly influential Egyptian scholar

historian, poet, knight, and politician

Human rights lawyer and civil society leader

Human rights lawyer and scholar

Icelander

Important Egyptian early jurist in the Maliki school

Influential German philosopher of law

Influential Medieval rabbinic authority

Influential Muslim jurist

International law professor

Islamic jurist (faqīh)

Islamic scholar and judge

Islamic scholar and jurist of the Hanbali school

Islamic scholar and professor of law

Islamic scholar from 10th century

Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period

Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence

Judge

Judge and Jurist

Judge, writer and scholar of Hadith, born in Sabta, Morocco

Jurisconsult

Jurisprudent in Maliki Islamic law

Jurist

Jurist and a legal philosopher