Abu al-Walid al-Baji

Abu al-Walid al-Baji
Personal Details
Born 403/1013[1]
Badajoz[2]
Died 474/1081[3]
Almeria[4]
Religion Islam
Denomination Sunni Islam
Jurisprudence Maliki[5]
Creed Ash'ari[6]

Abu al-Walid al-Baji (or Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa`d or Sa`dun ibn Ayyub, al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujaybi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Baji al-Tamimi al-Dhahabi al-Maliki) (1013–1081) was a famous Maliki scholar and poet from Beja, Al-Andalus.[7]

Al-Baji worked at various times as a watchman and a goldsmith to support himself. He was a contemporary of the jurist Ibn Hazm. He died in 1081.

Bibliography

By Abu al-Walid al-Baji:

References

  1. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  2. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  3. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  4. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 5. ISBN 9004243100
  5. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 557. ISBN 9004243100
  6. ↑ Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke, Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Brill Publishers, 2012), p 383. ISBN 9004243100
  7. ↑ The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, Volume 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, p. 204
  8. ↑ Maribel Fierro, "Heresy in al-Andalus." Taken from The Legacy of Muslim Spain, pg. 905. Ed. Salma Jayyusi. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1994.

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