Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi

Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn Muhammad al-Samarqandi (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي, romanized: ʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī; 944–983) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school and Quran commentator, who lived during the second half of the 10th century.

Works

Al-Samarqandī authored various books on theology and juridical works, including Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, بحر العلوم, a Quran exegesis, also known as Tafsīr as-Samarqandi; Tanbīh al-Ġāfilīn, تنبيه الغافلين; and the nawāzil-collections Kitāb al-Nawāzil fi al-furūʿ and Mukhtaṣar (which stand as unusual examples of Hanafi nawāzil, in a genre usually associated with the Maliki school of Islamic jurispriudence).

Studies and editions

• Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī: Le traité Arabe Muḳaddima d'Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī en version Mamelouk-Kiptchak. - Warszawa : Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1962
• Daiber, Hans: The Islamic concept of belief in the 4th/10th century : Abū l-Laiṯ as-Samarkandī's commentary on Abū Ḥanīfa (died 150/767) al-Fiqh al-absāṭ / Introduction, text and commentary by Hans Daiber. Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1995 (Studia Culturae Islamicae; 52)
• Mangera, Abdur-Rahman (2013). A critical edition of Abū 'l-Layth al-Samarqandī's Nawāzil. SOAS, University of London (phd). doi:10.25501/SOAS.00017840. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

Notes

• TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi - SEMERKANDÎ, Ebü’l-Leys
• ABŪ'L-LAYTH AL-SAMARQANDĪ'S LIFE AND WORKS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS "AL-MUQADDIMAH"

References

1. Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
2. Fitra
3. Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari
4. Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi
5. Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi
6. Al-Samarqandi
7. Abu Hanifa
8. Al-Ghazali
9. Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi
10. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya
11. Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi
12. Mu'in al-Din Chishti
13. Al-Fiqh al-Akbar
14. Nur al-Din Zengi
15. Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
16. Al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya
17. Al-Tahawi
18. Abu Yusuf
19. Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi
20. Kitab al-Tawhid (Al-Maturidi)