Awad bin Raja al-Awfi
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Awad bin Raja al-Awfi is a contemporary Saudi scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and academic associated with the Islamic University of Madinah, known for his comparative legal study al-Wilaya fi al-Nikah (Guardianship in Marriage).
Academic Career and Scholarly Contributions
His full name is Awad bin Raja bin Furayj al-Awfi (also recorded as Furayh al-Awfi). In 1403 AH (1983 CE), he completed his master's degree at the Islamic University of Madinah with a thesis on the legal conditions and rulings of matrimonial guardianship in Islamic law, titled al-Wilaya fi al-Nikah. The study was later published in two volumes by the university's Deanship of Scientific Research in 1423 AH (2002 CE).
In addition to his legal research, al-Awfi has worked on editing classical Islamic manuscripts. He co-edited the major Hanbali comparative legal text al-Intisar fi al-Masa'il al-Kibar by Abu al-Khattab al-Kalwadhani (d. 510 AH) alongside scholars such as Sulayman bin Abdullah al-Umayr and Abdulaziz al-Bu'aymi, which was published in Riyadh in 1413 AH (1993 CE). He also edited the treatise on the law of inheritance titled Kashf al-Ghawamid fi Ilm al-Fara'id, published in Madinah in 1417 AH (1996 CE).
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al-Wilaya fi al-Nikah (Guardianship in Marriage) is a two-volume comparative jurisprudential work that examines the legal rulings, conditions, and forms of guardianship in Islamic marriage contracts.