Kim był Al-Maḥbūbī?
Who was Al-Maḥbūbi?

Author(s): Janusz Danecki
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: history of Muslim legal theory and practice; Ḥanafi school of law in Central Asia; office of ṣadr; Al-Maḥbūbī family; art and method of legal commentaries in 13th and 14th centuries
Summary/Abstract: In professor Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo’s collection there is an Arabic manuscript of "At-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ḡawāmid At-Tanqīḥ". The copy is dated 1234 A.H. (1818/1819 A.D.) and according to its colophon, was copied in Bukhara. The author of this commentary is a 14th century Muslim scholar from Bukhara specializing in Ḥanafi law (fiqh). The work was quite popular in Central Asia and many copies of it are preserved in different collections. In this article, the development of Central Asiatic Ḥanafi fiqh is presented with special attention paid to the office of ṣidāra, especially the two families of lawyers: the Al-Burhānīs and Al-Maḥbūbīs. An attempt is made to elucidate the complicated history of multiple commentaries upon commentaries in which the main personage of the story: ‘Ubayd Allāh al-Maḥbūbī was entagled.

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