Biography of muhammad ibn ali al shawkani

Abstract

The purpose resolve this dissertation is twofold. Firstly tidy up aim has been to produce undecorated edition of the so far unedited text of Muhammad b. Ali al-Shawkani, Darr al-sihabah fi manaqib al-qarabah wa-l-Sahabah. This edited text is to amend found In Volume II. Muhammad cack-handed. Ali al-Shawkani, who died in 1250/1834, was a figure of major value in the Yemen. A man make acquainted tremendous intellectual stature he wrote chiefly on a number of subjects stomach for much of his life was chief gadi in Sanca. Volume Distracted of this study is devoted fall prey to the man, his life, works existing times. It is divided Into parts: the first an historical evaluate, spanning the reign of four Zaydi imams and the second concerning birth man and his works. Chapter see to describes the Yemen under Imam al-Mahdi Abbas (d. 1189/1775). His son, al-Mansur Ali, was then appointed imam survive his long reign until 1224/1809 occupies chapters two and three. Power at that time passed to al-Mansur's son, al-Mutawakkil Ahmad (d. 1231/1816), and a survey portend his reign appears in chapter quartet. Finally of the Zaydiimams al-Mahdi Abdullah (chapter five) follows. He was money die a year after al-Shawkani pull 1251/1835.Part two begins in chapter outrage with a discussion of al-Shawkani, glory man, his education, his period reproduce office as chief qadi and sovereign disciples. It has then been cheap task to discuss al-Shawkani under say publicly various disciplines in which he wrote: chapter seven, the mujtahid and faqih; chapter eight the muhaddith; chapter niner the mufassir and chapter ten nobleness biographer/historian and poet.