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al-Kāsānī
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, Abū Bakr b. Masʿūd b. Aḥmad ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Malik al-ʿUlamā, Ḥanafī jurist, also wrongly called al-Kās̲h̲ānī; his nisba is derived from Kāsān, “a place beyond al-S̲h̲ās̲h̲” (Ḳuras̲h̲ī, Ibn Duḳmāḳ), i. e. in Ferg̲h̲āna, north of the Saiḥūn; cf. Mustawfī, Nuzhat al- Ḳulūb, p. 246; Samʿānī, fol. 417r; Yāḳūt, iv. 227.

He was a pupil of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Aḥmad al-Samarḳandī (d. 539 =1144) and married his daughter Fāṭima known as Faḳīha, giving his commentary on the Tuḥfa of his master as a bridal gift. He lived at first at the Sald̲j̲ūḳ court but was forced to…

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Heffening, “al-Kāsānī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_4377>
First published online: 2012
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004082656, 1913-1936



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