The Most Famous
LAWYERS from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 68 Lawyers, 2 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 11th most number of Lawyers behind Netherlands and Syria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Muhammad al-Shaybani (750 - 805)
With an HPI of 58.89, Muhammad al-Shaybani is the most famous Iraqi Lawyer. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was a Muslim jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (later being the eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence), Malik ibn Anas and Abu Yusuf.
2. Al-Mawardi (974 - 1058)
With an HPI of 58.20, Al-Mawardi is the 2nd most famous Iraqi Lawyer. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
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 political science. He is considered to be an eminent scholar of his time who wrote on numerous subjects, including Qur'anic interpretations, religion, government, public and constitutional law, language, ethics and belles-letters.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as lawyers born between 750 and 974. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased lawyers include Muhammad al-Shaybani and Al-Mawardi.
