Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra
The first edition ever published of Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra, published in 1906 in Cairo by al-Matba'a al-Husayniyya al-Misriyya. The Arabic text written on the book cover: Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra by Shaykh al-Islam, the Luminary of Luminaries, the Proof of al-Huffaz (memorizers of the Qur'an and Hadith traditions) and al-Mufassirin (the interpreters or the commentators of the Qur'an), the Sword of al-Nuzzar (the rationalists or theorists) and al-Mutakallimīn (dialecticians, theologians, or scholars of kalam), the Champion of Sunnah, the Supporter/Strengthener of Religion, Taj al-Din Abi Nasr 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Taqi al-Din al-Subki, may God be pleased with him, and benefit us from him. | |
| Editors | Mahmud Muhammad al-Tanahi and 'Abd al-Fattah Muhammad al-Hilw Mustafa 'Abd al-Qadir 'Ata |
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| Author | Taj al-Din al-Subki |
| Original title | طبقات الشافعية الكبرى |
| Language | Arabic |
| Subject | Tabaqat, Biography, Islamic history, Arabic literature, Kalam, Sufism |
| Publisher | Al-Matba'a al-Husayniyya al-Masriyya, 1906 Matba'at 'Isa al-Babi al-Halabi, 1964 Dar Ihya' al-Kutub al-'Arabiyya, 1976 Dar Hajar, 1992 Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1999 |
Publication date | 1906 |
| Publication place | Egypt during the Mamluk rule |
| ISBN | 9782745128560 |
| Preceded by | Jam' al-Jawami' (The Collection of Collections) |
| Followed by | Mu'id al-Ni'am wa Mubid al-Niqam (The Restorer of Favours and the Restrainer of Chastisements) |
Original text | طبقات الشافعية الكبرى at Arabic Wikisource |
| Website | www.al-ilmiyah.com/details?id=978-2-7451-2856-0 |
Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra (Arabic: طبقات الشافعية الكبرى, lit. 'The Major Classes/Generations of the Shafi'is') is a voluminous encyclopedic biographical dictionary written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370), in which he presents biographies of scholars of the Shafi'i legal school in Sunni Islam, from the time of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820) all the way to his own contemporary time.
The work also chronicles the history of the Ash'ari school of thought, since its beginning with Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (d. 324/936) all the way to Taj al-Din al-Subki's own era; because most of the Ash'ari scholars are following the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.