Ibn Qudama dies in Damascus; the Hanbali jurist's al-Mughni, a comparative compendium of law across the schools, becomes the Hanbali school's standard work and a monument of Sunni legal scholarship.
Tagged: Hanbali Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1233 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Damascus; today Damascus, Syria
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Hanbali, Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Ibn Qudama
- Key texts
- Al-Mughni
Primary Sources
- Al-Mughni
Secondary Sources
- Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0237; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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