Masadir al-Fiqh al-Maliki
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Masadir al-Fiqh al-Maliki (Arabic: مصادر الفقه المالكي, romanized: Maṣādir al-Fiqh al-Mālikī) is a specialized bibliographic reference work on the literature of the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by the Algerian scholar Abu ‘Asim Bashir Dayf and published by Dar Ibn Hazm .
Title and Scope
The full subtitle of the work is Uṣūlan wa-Furū‘an fī al-Mashriq wa-al-Maghrib Qadīman wa-Ḥadīthan ("Foundations and Substantive Branches in the East and the West, Ancient and Modern") . The book serves as a compendium documenting the most prominent and widely recognized texts of the Maliki madhhab across both prose and verse, including classical and modern publications as well as manuscript treatises .
Structure and Contents
The work classifies Maliki legal literature into thematic and pedagogical categories, tracing primary texts along with their commentaries (shurūḥ), versifications (manẓūmāt), supercommentaries, and glosses (ḥawāshī) . Its primary classifications include:
- Introductory and Pedagogical Texts (Maṣādir al-Mustawā al-Awwal): Surveys foundational instructional manuals and didactic poems designed for beginners, such as Manẓūmat al-Qurṭubī, Ibn ‘Ashir's al-Murshid al-Mu‘īn, al-Muqaddimah al-‘Izziyyah, Matn al-‘Ashmāwiyyah, and al-Akhdari's Mukhtaṣar, along with their extensive commentaries .
- Advanced Texts and Classical Abridgments (Maṣādir al-Taḥṣīl al-Mutaqaddim and al-Mukhtaṣarāt): Covers authoritative major compendia and legal condensations, including al-Barādhi‘ī's al-Tahdhīb, Ibn al-Hajib's Jāmi‘ al-Ummahāt and al-Mukhtaṣar, and other early legal manuals, citing the scholarly works composed on them .
- Topical Monographs and Specialized Legal Chapters: Gathers treatises dedicated to specific legal questions and individual chapters of jurisprudence, such as fasting (ṣiyām), zakat, menstruation (ḥayḍ and nifās), errors in prayer (sahw), the rulings on desert waters, jihad, and reciting the Quran for the deceased .
- Legal Analogues, Court Documentation, and Market Oversight: Catalogs works on legal parallels and similar cases (al-nazā’ir), notary formulas and judicial deeds (al-shurūṭ and al-wathā’iq), market supervision (al-ḥisbah), and property and finance (al-amwāl) .
- Lexicography and History of the Madhhab: Lists reference works explaining rare and complex terms in Maliki texts (gharīb al-fiqh)—while noting comparative lexical works from other schools—as well as specialized studies and lectures dealing with the historical development of the Maliki school and its regional branches across Andalusia, Iraq, and the Islamic West .
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