Nashr al-Bunud ala Maraqi al-Suud
- Author died
- 1235 AH
- Editions
- Maṭbaʻat Faḍālah bi-al-Maghrib
Nashr al-Bunud ala Maraqi al-Suud (The Unfurling of Banners over the Ascents to Success) is a work on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) by the Mauritanian Maliki jurist Abdullah ibn Ibrahim al-Shinqiti (d. 1235 AH / 1820 CE), serving as his own commentary on his didactic poem Maraqi al-Suud .
Background and Composition
The author composed the base poem, Maraqi al-Suud li-Mubtaghi al-Ruqiyy wa-al-Suud, as a 1,001-verse rajaz adaptation of Taj al-Din al-Subki’s (d. 771 AH) Jam al-Jawami, tailored according to the positions of the Maliki school and theological scholars (al-mutakallimun) . Following the completion of the poem, al-Shinqiti began writing Nashr al-Bunud on a Thursday in Jumada al-Ula 1207 AH in the town of Tidjikja, a year after finishing the versification . He stated that his aim in compiling the commentary was to untangle complex issues and bring together selections of rational inquiry and transmitted scholarship .
Structure and Method
Following the design of the base poem, the commentary spans an introduction, seven major books, and a conclusion, treating the full scope of legal methodology . Al-Shinqiti adopts an intermediate style between verbosity and brevity, engaging cross-school legal theory and critically analyzing diverse rulings while affirming his own Maliki orientation .
In the introduction to the commentary, the author defined explicit shorthand references for his primary sources and glosses :
- al-Muhashshi refers to Kamal ibn Abi Sharif.
- Zakariyya refers to Zakariyya al-Ansari.
- al-Laqani refers to Nasir al-Din al-Laqani.
- Hululu refers to Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Hululu al-Qarawi, author of the commentary al-Diya al-Lami.
- al-Qadi Abu Bakr refers to Abu Bakr al-Baqillani.
- al-Razi refers to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, author of al-Mahsul.
- al-Tanqih or Sharh al-Tanqih refers to Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi.
- al-Ayat al-Bayyinat refers to the three-volume gloss by Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Abbadi.
Reception and Influence
Nashr al-Bunud became the primary authority and foundation for later scholars studying and annotating Maraqi al-Suud . Later Mauritanian scholars produced commentaries and abridgments based directly on it, including Muhammad Yahya al-Walati (d. 1330 AH) in his Fath al-Wadud bi-Sullam al-Suud and Muhammad al-Amin ibn Ahmad al-Murabit (d. 1325 AH) in Maraqi al-Suud ila Maraqi al-Suud .
Printings
The work has been printed in several editions, including an early Moroccan printing at al-Matba'a al-Hafiziyya in 1327 AH, an edition published under the sponsorship of King Hassan II of Morocco and the UAE Heritage Revival Fund, and later editions in two and three volumes produced in Beirut .
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