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Abū Ḥanīfa

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Abū Ḥanīfa

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Also known as Abu Hanifa, Imam Azam, The Great Imam, The Lamp of the Imams, al-Nuʿmān b. al-Ṯābit, Abū Ḥanīfaŧ

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

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Abū Ḥanīfa was a male person associated with the region of Tamil Nadu. He was born on 0699-09-05 and died in 767. His authorship is recorded under the name Abu Hanifa.

Among his works is *Abhandlungen Zur Islamischen Glaubenslehre*. Records indicate he has five works, while another source lists one work. He is referenced by 937 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 11 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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  • Abhandlungen Zur Islamischen Glaubenslehre

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Tamil Nadu
Active from
1925-12-25
Active to
2015-04-08

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Comfort of the Mystics

    · 2013 · cited 17x

  2. Abu Zayd AlBalkhi’s Sustenance of the Soul

    · 2013 · cited 12x

  3. The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

    · 2015 · cited 12x

  4. The Epistle of Forgiveness

    · 2016 · cited 11x

  5. The Arithmetic of Al-Uqlīdisī

    · 1978 · cited 4x

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Encyclopedic overview

Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; 5 September 699 CE – 18 June 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. His school predominates in Central and South Asia, Turkey, Africa, the Balkans, Russia, and some parts of the Arab world.

Sources disagree on exactly where he was born, whether in Kufa (held by the majority), Kabul, Anbar, Nasa or Termez. Abu Hanifa traveled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He was named by al-Dhahabi as "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence, worship, scrupulousness, and generosity".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abū Ḥanīfa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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