Publisher's Synopsis
The Qaḍi Abu Bakr Ibn al-?Arabi was an Aš?arite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in the history of aš?arism in al-Andalus, and introduced kalam books that quickly became references of local teaching, such as the Iršad of al-Guwayni. He also introduced treatises of uṣul al-fiqh such as the Mustaṣfa and the Manḫul of al-Gazali. Ibn al-?Arabi is also the most famous disciple of the latter and one of the first to have transmitted his thought to Andalusian scholars, then to the rest of the Muslim West. Through a critical, introduced, translated and commented edition of his sum of legal theory entitled Nukat al-Maḥṣul fi ?ilm uṣul, this present work shows how the legal thought of the Qaḍi is articulated between language and theology.
