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The most important scientific works written by Abu Zayd Dabusi are as follows: “Taqvimu-l-adilla”. There are four important works of the .uithor devoted to “usul” (style) and “khilaf” (comparative law). They are: “Taqvimu-l-adilla fi usuli-l-fiqh”; “Ta’sisu-n-nazar”; “Kitabu-l-asrar fi-l-usul va-l-furu”; “At-Ta’liqa”. “Taqvimu-l-adilla” has its own place among the other books. Consisting …

Having studied law on Iraqi direction from Muhammad ibn Hasan Shaybani,the classical follower and disciple of Abu Hanifa, the lawyer Abu Hafs Kabir (768-832) returned to his native country, made the ancient Bukhara a centre of legal studies and prepared a number of students in law. Having studied law under …

The main creative work written by al-Hakim as-Samarqandi is, of course, his book “As-savad al-a’zam” which reflects the viewpoints of the Hanafian order in Islam at the crossroads of the 9th-10lh centuries in Maveraunnahr. The problems discussed in this book are not only limited with the common problems of Islam. …

The full name of the scholar known as Sheikh ul-Islam al-Hakim as-Samarqandi was Abu-l-Qasim Is’haq ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Zayd al-Hakim as-Samarqandi. He was a famous expert in the sciences of Hadiths, law and kalam. He was also known as a vaiz in the Islamic world. In …

It is well known that the description of the Islamic rules have always been in the centre of attention of the Islamic scientists and specialists. One of the first books devoted to the Islamic rules in Maveraunnahr was Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi’s (870-944) “At-Tawhid” and “Ta’vilat ahl as-Sunnah”. He was …

As has been mentioned above, lots of great people and geniuses in the fields of law, hadith, tafsir and kalam were educated in our country in the Middle Ages and they became famous throughout the world for their wide-scale scientific heritages, and this fact fills our souls with great and …

About the book “Musnad” “Al-Musnad al-kabir” (Al-Musnad) written by Imam ash-Shashi is devoted to the science of Hadiths. Up to the recent years the only handwritten copy of this book was preserved in “Az-Zahiriya” libra­ry in Damascus, Syria under the code number 277 and then lately it was given to …

Haysam ibn Kulayb Shashi began to study from his early age. In order to understand the essence of the question under discussion, he used to attend the debates and discussions held between the experts and the learned people in different fields of knowledge. He attended the lessons led by Isa …

Islam is considered as one of the main roots of human culture. Such great geniuses as Imam al-Bukhari, Imam at-Termizi, Imam al-Maturidi, Mahmud az-Zamakhshari, Burhan ad-din al-Marghinani, who were born on this sacred land, made a substantial contribution to the teachings and the theory of Islam. It is well known …

As “Hidaya” is acknowledged by experts as a perfect and original book both in its structure and content reflecting the teach­ings of the Hanafian school of law, the works in the later periods were written in its style of expressing the legal notions. As was acknowledged by an Indian scholar …