Abū Ḥanīfa

Also known as Abu Hanifa, Imam Azam, The Great Imam, The Lamp of the Imams, al-Nuʿmān b. al-Ṯābit, Abū Ḥanīfaŧ

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

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Abū Ḥanīfa was an influential 8th-century Islamic theologian and legal scholar whose ideas shaped Sunni Islam. His approach to Islamic law and doctrine remains significant in Islamic thought and practice today.

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Abhandlungen Zur Islamischen Glaubenslehre

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Tamil Nadu
Active from: 1925-12-25
Active to: 2015-04-08

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The Comfort of the Mystics
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The Life and Times of Abū Tammām
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The Epistle of Forgiveness
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Abu Zayd AlBalkhi’s Sustenance of the Soul
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The Arithmetic of Al-Uqlīdisī
· 1978 · cited 4x

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date of birth: 0699-00-00
name in native language: أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ النُّعْمَانُ
Commons category: Abu Hanifa
birth name: النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ بْنِ مَرْزُبَان الكُوفِيّ التَّيْمِيّ بِالْوَلَاء
nickname: إمام الأئمَّة الفُقهاء
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date of death: 0767-00-00

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Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; 5 September 699 CE – 18 June 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. His school predominates in Central and South Asia, Turkey, Africa, the Balkans, Russia, and some parts of the Arab world.

Sources disagree on exactly where he was born, whether in Kufa (held by the majority), Kabul, Anbar, Nasa or Termez. Abu Hanifa traveled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He was named by al-Dhahabi as "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence, worship, scrupulousness, and generosity".