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- Islamic jurist
- Life
- 1123 – 1197
Great scholars
Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
Islamic jurist
A jurist from Margilan whose al-Hidaya became one of the most authoritative textbooks of Hanafi law, studied from Central Asia to India.
Key achievements
- Wrote al-Hidaya, the most influential textbook of Hanafi law
- Set out each ruling with its reasoning, a method madrasas used to train jurists for centuries
- His book was translated into English in 1791 and used by the courts of British India