Legal theory in Muslim North Africa

(Qayrawani, Ibn Abi Zayd al-). [Commentary on the Risala of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani].

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A North African manuscript of three texts on Islamic jurisprudence, the first and longest a commentary on the Risala of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (922-996 CE). Ibn Abi Zayd was a native of Kairouan in Tunisia, a legal scholar, and a proponent of the Maliki school of legal theory. Several commentaries have been written on his most influential work, his Risala, of which this is one.

The commentary and the two shorter texts following - all three textbooks on Maliki legal interpretations - were copied together by the same scribe in a tidy Maghribi script. Maliki fiqh was historically, and remains, a major school of Islamic theory and philosophy of law (called fiqh). Outside of Egypt, the Sunni Muslims of North Africa tended towards Maliki fiqh, a school of jurisprudence founded by Malik ibn Anas (ca. 711-795 CE) in 8th century Medina, from which it spread westward. Maliki fiqh was historically also a major force in Muslim Europe, especially Al-Andalus, and remains to this day a major influence in Muslim North Africa.