Abu Bakr al-Maliki
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"Norman conquest of Sicily.[2]
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Bibliography
- Hentati, Nejmeddine (2017). "al-Mālikī, Abū Bakr". In Fleet, Kate; ISSN 1873-9830.
- Hopley, Russell (2012). "Abu Bakr al-Maliki". In Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press.