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.

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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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