Al-Tahawi

Al-Tahawi

{{Infobox religious biography | religion = Islam | era = Abbasid Caliphate | image = Tahawi.png | caption = | name = Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīٱلطَّحَاوِيّ | birth_date = 853 CE / 239 AHTaha al Amidah, Abbasid Caliphate | death_date = 5 November 933 CE / 14 Dhul Qa’ada 321 AHCairo, Abbasid Caliphate | jurisprudence = Hanafi (formerly Shafi'i) | denomination = Sunni | school_tradition = | main_interests = Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology, Hadith | influences = Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf, Muhammad al-Shaybani | influenced = | notable_ideas = | native_name_lang = Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian. He studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Tahawi has received more than 144,288 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Al-Tahawi is the 18th most popular lawyer (up from 20th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 220th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Lawyer.