Muhammad 'Ilish (1802 - 1882 CE) (1217 - 1299 AH) ( ar, محمد عليش), more commonly referred to in Muslim works simply as 'Ilish or Sheikh 'Ilish, was a 19th-century CE Egyptian Muslim jurist of

Tripolitania Tripolitania ( ar, طرابلس '; ber, Ṭrables, script=Latn; from Vulgar Latin: , from la, Regio Tripolitana, from grc-gre, Τριπολιτάνια), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province o ...

n origin. 'Illish was an important late scholar of the

Maliki The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...

school of Islamic jurisprudence (

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

). He is perhaps the last of a line of widely read and respected sources of traditional fatwas of the late Maliki school from an

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scholar. 'Ilish was an extremely popular teacher at Al-Azhar. His lectures were regularly attended by audiences of over 200 students. In July 1854, 'Ilish was appointed the Maliki

Mufti A Mufti (; ar, مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion (''fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatwas'' played an important role ...

of Al-Azhar. By the time of his death in 1882, 'Ilish was one of the premier leaders of Egyptian scholarly society. His ''Manh al-Jalil'' as well as his ''Fatawa'' are widely used today among traditional Malikis for fatwa positions of the school.Nasir ud-Deen Muhammad al-Sharif, ''Al-Jawahir al-Ikliliya fi A'yaan 'Ulama Libya min al-Malikiyya'' (Amman: Dar al-Bayareeq, 1999).

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1802 births 1882 deaths Asharis Al-Azhar University alumni Egyptian Maliki scholars Egyptian people of Libyan descent Muslims from the Ottoman Empire {{Islam-bio-stub

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