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Mālik b. Anas

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Eponym of the Malikite madhhab, author of Kitāb al-Muwaṭṭaʾ

Names

  • Arabic: مالك بن أنس = Mālik b. Anas 1
  • Arabic: أبو عبد الله مالك بن أنس = Abū ʿAbdallāh Mālik b. Anas 2
  • Arabic: الامام مالك = al-Imām Mālik 3

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 45، 78، 124، 149، 217، 231، 309، 468، 469، 489، 492، 510 (2) 41، 110، 170، 220، 230، 265، 273، 337، 354، 459 (3) 240، 265، 430، 433 (4) 203، 240، 263، 397 (5) 91، 247 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:351, 360 [Arabic].
    • Abū ʿAbdallāh Mālik b. Anas: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 167, 179 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 4:63 [Arabic].
    • Imām Mālik: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), IV, 830 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Mālik b. Anas” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/8950.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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