Ibn Abidin
(1784-1836)
Ottoman jurisprudence expert
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Ibn 'Abidin (Arabic: ابن عابدين), was a prominent Islamic scholar and Jurist who lived in the city of Damascus in Syria during the Ottoman era. He was the authority of the fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) of the Hanafi madhhab (school of law). He was a state employee with the title of Amin al-fatwa. This meant that he was the mufti that people would go to when they had legal questions in Damascus. He composed over 50 works consisting of a major fatwa (legal statement) collection, many treatises, poems, and several commentaries on the works of others.
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1784 Damascus, Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
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1836 (aged 51) Damascus, Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
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