Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah
- Died
- 1433 AH
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah (d. 1433 AH / 2012 CE) was a Moroccan historian, researcher, and legal scholar known for his specialized reference works on the Maliki legal tradition and Moroccan civilization.
Background and Family
He was raised in an educated scholarly family; his father was the Maliki jurist Abd al-Wahid ibn Ali Benabdallah. As a scholar and historian, he focused extensively on documenting Moroccan religious institutions, legal jurisprudence, and cultural history.
Scholarly Contributions
In his legal research, he aimed to categorize the practical applications of Maliki jurisprudence in Morocco, highlighting the school's regional characteristics, judicial institutions, and historical fatwas. He emphasized the contributions of western Islamic scholars to the broader Islamic world and documented regional legal terminology. Among his major contributions was his legal reference Muallamat al-Fiqh al-Maliki (The Compendium of Maliki Jurisprudence), which surveyed judicial administration, legal literature, and manuscript traditions across more than a millennium. His historical research also examined social customs and administrative traditions in Morocco, as reflected in his study Mu'tiyat al-hadara al-maghribiyya (Data of Moroccan Civilization).
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List of Works
Muallamat al-Fiqh al-Maliki (The Compendium of Maliki Jurisprudence) is a specialized reference work on the Maliki legal school. It examines the historical development, judicial administration, fatwas, and legal literature of the school, with a particular focus on the Islamic West.