عبد الوهاب خلاف

'Abd al-Wahhab Khallaf (RH)

Also known as: Abdul Wahab Khallaf, Abd al-Wahhab Khallaf

1305–1375 AH · 1888–1956 CE

Fiqh

Egyptian jurist whose textbook on the principles of jurisprudence is still taught.

'Abd al-Wahhab Khallaf was born in Kafr al-Zayyat in the Nile Delta. He studied at al-Azhar and graduated in 1915 from the School of Sharia Judges in Cairo, where he then taught. He served as a judge in the Sharia courts and, from 1934, as professor of Islamic law at Cairo University.

His 'Ilm Usul al-Fiqh, a short and clear book on the sources and methods of Islamic law, became one of the most widely used textbooks of its subject and is still taught in universities from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur. He also wrote on Islamic constitutional and financial rulings, and was a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo.

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