Abu Bakr al-Maliki

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Abū Bakr ʿAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Qurashī al-Qayrawānī al-Mālikī (fl. 1036–1057) was an

Ashʿarī theologian and traditionist. He played a major role in spreading Mālikism and Ashʿarism in Ifrīqiya.[1]

Al-Mālikī was born in

al-Māzarī was one of his students.[2] According al-Dabbāgh, writing over two centuries later, al-Mālikī remained in Kairouan after the Hilālī sack of 1057, when most other scholars decamped to Mahdia.[1][2] He died sometime after this date,[1] perhaps in 1081 or 1097.[2]

Only one work by al-Mālikī has survived, Riyāḍ al-nufūs ("Gardens of the Souls"

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