ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN

 

ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN ḤASAN B. ABŪ ṬĀLEB YŪSOFĪ, Imami faqīh (jurist) of the 7th/13th century, well-known under the nicknames of Fāżel-e Ābī and Ebn al-Zaynab. He was a pupil of Moḥaqqeq Ḥellī, with whom he held disputations on topics of Shiʿite law. He wrote a commentary on his master’s Moḵtaṣar-e nāfeʿ entitled Kašf al-romūz; its colophon bears the date 672/1273-74. He is credited with a certain individuality in his interpretation of canon law (feqh). Among the positions ascribed to him is a condemnation of the practice of having more than canonical four wives, even if this was done by recourse to moṭʿa (i.e., temporary or term marriage, or, more generally, concubinage).

Bibliography:

Shaikh Asadallāh Tostarī, Maqābes al-anwār, lith. ed., Tabrīz, 1322/1904-05, p. 17.

Shaikh ʿAbbās Qommī, Hadīyat al-aḥbāb, Naǰaf, 1349/1930-31, p. 96.

Idem, Safīnat al-beḥār I, Tehran, 1355/1936-37, p. 55.

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Modarres Tabrīzī, Rayḥānāt al-adab I, Tabrīz, 1346 Š./1967, p. 14.

(Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji)

Originally Published: December 15, 1982

Last Updated: July 15, 2011

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Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji, “ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/2, p. 218; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abi-ezz-al-din-imami-faqih-jurist-of-the-13th-century (accessed on 25 January 2014).