Ali ibn Ziyad at-Tarabulsi al-'Absi (d. 799 CE) (183 AH) (), more commonly referred to in Islamic scholarship as Ali ibn Ziyad or Imam al-Tarabulsi, was an 8th-century CE Libyan Muslim jurist from

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. Ibn Ziyad was an important early scholar of the

Maliki The Maliki school or Malikism is one of the four major madhhab, schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas () in the 8th century. In contrast to the Ahl al-Hadith and Ahl al-Ra'y schools of thought, the ...

school of Islamic jurisprudence (

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) and a companion of Imam Malik. Ali ibn Ziyad was responsible for bringing the Muwatta of Imam Malik to

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya). It included all of what had previously been the Byzantine province of ...

.Nasir ud-Deen Muhammad al-Sharif, ''Al-Jawahir al-Ikliliya fi A'yaan 'Ulama Libya min al-Malikiyya'' (Amman: Dar al-Bayareeq, 1999), 40. He died in 799 CE and is buried in the remains of the Silsila Cemetery in the Qasba quarter of Tunis's medina (old-town).

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