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ṭabaqāt
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development in Islamic scholarship
- In Islamic world: Sharīʿah
…biographical materials into compendiums (ṭabaqāt). By viewing the Qurʾān and documentable Sunnah as preeminent, al-Shāfiʿī also undermined those in ʿAbbāsid court circles who wanted a more flexible base from which the caliph could operate. The Sharīʿah came to be a supremely authoritative, comprehensive set of norms and rules covering…
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importance in Arabic literary criticism
- In Arabic literature: Beginnings
…a larger process of establishing ṭabaqāt (“classes,” or “levels”). Two such early works belong to al-Aṣmaʿī and his student Ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī; the latter’s Ṭabaqāt fuḥūl al-shuʿarāʾ (“Classes of Champion Poets”) categorizes poets by both period and theme without providing any principles for his judgments. It fell to their successors…
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