برهان الدين المرغيناني

al-Marghinani (RH)

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani

511–593 AH · 1117–1197 CE

Fiqh Hanafi

Author of al-Hidayah, the most influential manual of Hanafi law.

Al-Marghinani was born in Marghinan in the Fergana valley and studied with the leading Hanafi scholars of Transoxiana. He became known as Shaykh al-Islam for his learning.

His al-Hidayah, a commentary on his own concise text Bidayat al-Mubtadi, became the central teaching book of the Hanafi school, studied from the Ottoman lands to India and the subject of dozens of commentaries. Under British rule in India it was translated into English as 'The Hedaya' and used in the courts.

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