Sirāj ud-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd Sajāwandī (
Persian
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: محمد ابن محمد ابن عبدالرشید سجاوندی) also known as Abū Tāhir Muhammad al-Sajāwandī al-Hanafī (
Arabic
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: ابی طاهر محمد السجاوندي الحنفي) and the honorific Sirāj ud-Dīn (سراج الدین, "lamp of the faith") (died c. 1203 CE or 600 AH)
was a 12th-century
Hanafi
The Hanafi school or Hanafism is the oldest and largest Madhhab, school of Islamic jurisprudence out of the four schools within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the Faqīh, jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa (), who systemised the ...
scholar of
Islamic inheritance jurisprudence
Islamic Inheritance jurisprudence is a field of Islamic jurisprudence () that deals with inheritance, a topic that is prominently dealt with in the Qur'an. It is often called ''Mīrāth'' (, literally "inheritance"), and its branch of Islamic la ...
, mathematics
astrology and geography. He is primarily known for his work ''Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah'' (
Arabic
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:کتاب الفرائض السراجیه), commonly known simply as "the ''Sirājīyah''", which is a principal work on
Hanafi
The Hanafi school or Hanafism is the oldest and largest Madhhab, school of Islamic jurisprudence out of the four schools within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the Faqīh, jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa (), who systemised the ...
inheritance law.
The work was translated into English by
Sir William Jones
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist, Indologist and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as ...
in 1792 for subsequent use in the courts of British India.
He was the grand-nephew of
qari Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi
ʿAbū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad Ibn ʿAbū Yazīd Tayfūr Sajāvandī Ghaznavī (), also known as Abū al-Fazl as-Sajāwandī al-Qāriʾ () (died 1165 CE or 560 AH) was a 12th-century Ulama, Islamic scholar, mystic, Qāriʾ and Theology, theologian ...
. He lies buried in the ''Ziārat-e Hazrat-o 'Āshiqān wa Ārifān'' in
Sajawand Sajāwand (Dari language, Dari/Pashto: سجاوند) is a village in Baraki Barak District, Baraki Barak district, Logar Province, Logar province, Afghanistan.
Name
Sajāwand was known in the early Islamic era as ''Sakāwand'' or ''Sagāwand'' (P ...
.
Name
His full name is ''Sirāj ud-Dīn Abū Tāhir Muḥammad Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr Sajāwandī'' (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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: سراج الدین محمد سجاوندی).
His
nasab
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, ''Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd ur-Rashīd ibn Tayfoūr'' refers to him being the "son of Muhammad son of 'Abd ur-Rashīd son of Tayfour". ''Sajāwandī'' is his
nisbah meaning "from
Sajawand Sajāwand (Dari language, Dari/Pashto: سجاوند) is a village in Baraki Barak District, Baraki Barak district, Logar Province, Logar province, Afghanistan.
Name
Sajāwand was known in the early Islamic era as ''Sakāwand'' or ''Sagāwand'' (P ...
". He is also known by the
teknonym
Teknonymy (from 'child' and 'name') is the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children. This practice can be found in many different cultures around the world. The term was coined by anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in an ...
''Abū Tāhir'' meaning "father of Tahir".
Works
* ''Kitāb al-Farāʼiẓ al-Sirājīyah'' (''The Sirajite Book of Inhertiance laws'', کتاب الفرائض السراجیه) a.k.a. ''al-Sirājīyah'' ("The Sirajite")
* ''al-Tajnīs Fī al-Hasāb'' (''The Analogy for the Calculations'' , کتاب التجنیس فی الحساب)
* ''Resālat Fī al-Jabr wa al-Muqābilah'' (''Treatise on Algebra'' , رسالة فی الجبر و المقابله)
References
External links
Al Sirajiyyah: Or the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance Jones, William (Calcutta, 1792)
Hanafi fiqh scholars
People from Logar Province
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Mathematicians who worked on Islamic inheritance
12th-century Iranian mathematicians
1203 deaths
12th-century Arabic-language writers
Scholars from the Ghaznavid Empire
Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
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