Abu al-Husayn al-Basri

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Abu'l-Husayn al-Basri
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Died436 H (1044 CE)
Religion Islam
Era Islamic golden age
Jurisprudence Hanafi [1] [2]
Creed Mu'tazila
Main interest(s) Usul
Notable work(s)al-Mu'tamad fi Usul al-Fiqh
Occupation Scholar of Islam
Muslim leader
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Abu'l-Husayn al-Basri (died 436/1044) was a Mu'tazilite jurist and theologian. He wrote al-Mu'tamad fi Usul al-Fiqh (The Canon of the Foundations of Jurisprudence), a major source of influence in informing the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence until Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's al-Mahsul fi 'Ilm al-Usul (The Compilation of the Fundamentals of the Legal Sciences).

He was a physician as well as a disciple of the Mu'tazilite judge Abd al-Jabbar in Rey. He challenged some of his master's teachings and eventually compiled a huge (two volumes; 1500 pages) critical review of the arguments and proofs used in Islamic scholastic theology. This, he summarised in al-Mu'tamad and included a critique of the qualifications of a legist. His works were generally handed down among students of medicine, and it was a century before his teachings were revived and espoused by the Mu'tazili scholar Ibn al-Malahimi in Khorezm in Central Asia, where they gained recognition as a school of Mu'tazili theology.

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References

  1. "al-Basri, Abu'l Husayn". The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford Reference. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2020. Muhammad b. ‘Ali Abu'l Husayn al-Basri was born in Basra, and died in Baghdad on 5 Rabi al-Akhir 436 / 30 October 1044. He was a Mu‘tazilite theologian and an important Hanafite jurist.
  2. Jalali-Moqaddam, Masoud; Negahban, Farzin (2008). "Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī". In Wilferd Madelung; Farhad Daftary (eds.). Encyclopaedia Islamica. doi:10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_0087. ISBN   978-90-04-16860-2 . Retrieved 22 June 2020. Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ṭayyib (d. 436/1044), was a Muʿtazilī theologian and a scholar of Ḥanafī jurisprudence.