Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra
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Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra (Arabic: طبقات الشافعية الكبرى, romanized: Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya al-Kubrā, lit. 'The Major Classes/Generations of the Shafi'is') is a voluminous encyclopedic biographical dictionary written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370), in which he presents biographies of scholars of the Shafi'i legal school in Sunni Islam, from the time of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820) all the way to his own contemporary time.[1][2]
Editors | Mahmud Muhammad al-Tanahi [ar] and 'Abd al-Fattah Muhammad al-Hilw [ar] Mustafa 'Abd al-Qadir 'Ata |
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Author | Taj al-Din al-Subki |
Original title | طبقات الشافعية الكبرى |
Country | Egypt during the Mamluk rule |
Language | Arabic |
Subject | Tabaqat, Biography, Islamic history, Arabic literature, Kalam, Sufism |
Publisher | Al-Matba'a al-Husayniyya al-Masriyya, 1906 Matba'at 'Isa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1964 Dar Ihya' al-Kutub al-'Arabiyya, 1976 Dar Hajar, 1992 Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya [ar], 1999 |
Publication date | 1906 |
ISBN | 9782745128560 |
Preceded by | Jam' al-Jawami' (The Collection of Collections) |
Followed by | Mu'id al-Ni'am wa Mubid al-Niqam (The Restorer of Favours and the Restrainer of Chastisements) |
Original text | طبقات الشافعية الكبرى at Arabic Wikisource |
Website | www.al-ilmiyah.com/details?id=978-2-7451-2856-0 |
The work also chronicles the history of the Ash'ari school of thought, since its beginning with Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (d. 324/936) all the way to Taj al-Din al-Subki's own era; because most of the Ash'ari scholars are following the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.[3]