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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Asad Ibn Ḥārith al-Khushanī (d. 361/971 or 371/981) was an Andalusian jurist of Islamic law (faqīh), historian, and poet. Born in al-Qayrawān in what is now Tunisia, he moved to al-Andalus when still a young man. He is especially remembered for three biographical compilations: Ṭabaqāt ʿulamāʾ Ifrīqiya, Quḍāt Qurṭuba, and Akhbār al-fuqahāʾ wa-l-muḥaddithīn. Although he is now often referred to by his nisba, al-Khushanī, his contemporaries generally knew him as Ibn Ḥārith. Al-Khushanī’s education began in his home town of al-Qayrawān, where he st…

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr Fuṭūh/Fattūḥ b. ʿAbdallāh b. Futūḥ b. Ḥumayd b. Yaṣil al-Azdī (d. 488/1095), called al-Ḥumaydī, was an Andalusī traditionist, jurist (faqīh, pl. fuqahāʾ), historian, and poet, best known for his biographical dictionary of Andalusī scholars Jadhwat al-muqtabis fī dhikr wulāt al-Andalus wa-asmāʾ ruwāt al-ḥadīth wa-ahl al-fiqh wa-l-adab wa-dhawī l-nabāha wa-l-shiʿr (“Fire from the embers on the governors, ḥadīth transmitters, faqīhs, men of letters, notables and poets of al-Andalus”). Although his father was from the Córdoban suburb of…