Mukhtasar Khalil
Sign in to saveMukhtaṣar (), in Islamic law, refers to a concise handbook or legal treatise, characterized by concision relative to other legal genres. Mukhtasars originated during the Abbasid caliphate and were created as a method to facilitate the quick training of lawyers without the repetitiveness of lengthy volumes, yet evolved into a mode of access into the fundamentals of Islamic law for the educated layperson. Some well-known mukhtasars include the Mukhtasar of Khalil, by the Egyptian Maliki scholar Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi (died 1365), and the Mukhtasar al-Quduri, by Hanafi scholar Imam al-Quduri (
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- Author
- Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ḥaṭṭāb
- First published
- 1969
- Editions
- 11
- Subjects
- Early works to 1800, Islamic law, Malikites
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- Imam Quduri
- Ibn Abī Zamanīn
- Notes
Mukhtaṣar (), in Islamic law, refers to a concise handbook or legal treatise, characterized by concision relative to other legal genres. Mukhtasars originated during the Abbasid caliphate and were created as a method to facilitate the quick training of lawyers without the repetitiveness of lengthy volumes, yet evolved into a mode of access into the fundamentals of Islamic law for the educated layperson. Some well-known mukhtasars include the Mukhtasar of Khalil, by the Egyptian Maliki scholar Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi (died 1365), and the Mukhtasar al-Quduri, by Hanafi scholar Imam al-Quduri (973–1037) of Baghdad.
== Imam Quduri == Mukhtasar of Imam Quduri is one of the most significant work in codification of Hanafi fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), widely studied in Islamic seminaries
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