Hashiyat al-Attar ala Sharh al-Jalal al-Mahalli ala Jam al-Jawami
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- 1250 AH
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- Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah
Hashiyat al-Attar ala Sharh al-Jalal al-Mahalli ala Jam al-Jawami is a supercommentary on legal theory (usul al-fiqh) written by the Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and rector of al-Azhar, Hasan al-Attar (1180–1250 AH / 1766–1834 CE; another report gives his birth year as 1190 AH) .
Background and Base Texts
The work is an extensive marginal gloss (hashiya) written on the commentary composed by Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli (d. 864 AH) . Al-Mahalli's commentary unpacks Jam al-Jawami, the foundational handbook of principles of jurisprudence and theology written by Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771 AH), which integrated material drawn from roughly one hundred earlier treatises .
Content and Method
Al-Attar's supercommentary provides granular analysis of al-Mahalli's explanations, dissecting grammatical constructions, rhetorical nuances, logical premises, and theological implications . Throughout the gloss, he engages with earlier authorities on grammar, rhetoric, and scholastic theology, citing scholars such as al-Zamakhshari, Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani, al-Qadi al-Baydawi, and al-Laythi's gloss on al-Mutawwal .
Publication and Accompanying Notes
The work was published in Cairo in two volumes . Modern standard printings of the text incorporate supplementary annotations and glosses (taqrirat) by later scholars, notably by the Azhari scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Shirbini and the Maliki scholar Muhammad Ali ibn Husayn al-Maliki .
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