Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib (Arabic: علي إبن محمد إبن حبيب, romanized: ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb; c. 974 –1058), commonly known by the nisba al-Mawardi (Arabic: الماوردي, romanized: al-Māwardī), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian, sociologist and an expert in ...

Al-Māwardī was a Muslim jurist who played an important role in formulating orthodox political theory as to the nature of the authority of the caliph. As a young man al-Māwardī entered the service of the caliph and soon came to be entrusted with the …

Jun 12, 2021 · Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi was born at Basrah. He learned Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the jurist Abu al-Wahid al-Simari. He then went to Baghdad for advanced studies under Sheikh Abd al-Hamid and Abdallah al-Baqi.

May 13, 2024 · Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib al-Mawardi, better known as Al-Mawardi, was a prominent Islamic jurist, theologian, and political philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of Islamic jurisprudence and political theory during the …

Appointed as the chief judge (qadi) over several districts near Nishapur in Iran, and Baghdad itself, al-Māwardī also served as a diplomat for the Abbasid caliphs al-Qadir (947–1031, r. 991–1031) and al-Qa’im (1001–1075, r. 1031–1075) in negotiations with the Buyid emirs (Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi n.d.;

Abu al-Hassan al-Mawardi was born in Basrah (c. 364/974) which was then one of the principal seats of learning and education in the Muslim world. He, therefore, got all his education here and rose in literary renown at an early age.

Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi( أبو الحسن علي بن محمد بن حبيب البصري الماوردي ), known in Latin as Alboacen (972-1058 CE), was an Arab Muslim jurist of the Shafi`i school

Apr 6, 2025 · "Abu al-Hasan al- Mawardi" published on by null. (d. 1058)Shafii jurist who wrote the most significant classical theoretical explanation of public law in relation to political theory, Al-ahkam al-sultaniyyah (Ordinances of government).

Al-Mawardi was one of the most famous thinkers in political science in the middle Ages. He was also a great sociologist, jurist, and mohaddith. He served as Chief Justice at Baghdad and as an ambassador of the Abbasid Caliph to several important and powerful Muslim states.

Al-Mawardi was an Islamic jurist and judge by profession, trained in the Shafii School but at the same time well versed in all the major Madh ā hib (school of thought).