A fourteenth-century synthesis of Hanafi law and scholasticism

Sadr al-sharia ('Ubayd-Allah ibn Mas'ud al-Mahbubi). Al-Talwih ila Kashf Haqa'iq al-Tanqih.

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A very early manuscript survival: copied only eleven years after the death of the author, known as Sadr al-Shari'a, and comprising a commentary Sadr wrote on his own work on Islamic law. Sadr al-Shari'a the Younger (d. 1346/47 CE), also styled al-Mahbubi, was a leading Hanafi-Maturidi scholar, a jurist, theologian (including a thorough knowledge of hadith), grammarian and astronomer. He is best known for his work on Muslim law in the Hanafi school, and for synthesizing Hanafi ideas with that of medieval scholasticism. In doing so, his work combined the philosophy of Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi with that of famous Maliki jurist and Cairo-based Kurdish grammarian Ibn al-Hajib (d. 1249 CE); these two scholars form the basis of much of his work and interpretations, but his skill in synthesizing different schools of thought is all his own. This very early copy is dated to Dhu'l-Qa'dah, 758 H (October 1357) by its anonymous scribe, little more than a decade after Sadr al-Shari'a was buried in Bukhara, in modern Uzbekistan.