al-Baḥrānī, Yūsuf b. Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Baḥrānī, Yūsuf b. Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Newman, Andrew J.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060048
Doc. NO	:	ALei445
Main Entry	:	Newman, Andrew J.
Title & Author	:	al-Baḥrānī, Yūsuf b. Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Newman, Andrew J.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(799 words)
Abstract	:	Yūsuf b. Aḥmad al-Baḥrānī (1107–86/1695–6–1772) was a key figure in the early twelfth/eighteenth-century Twelver Shīʿī debates between Akhbārīs and Uṣūlīs on the nature of jurisprudence. The former challenged the utilisation by Uṣūlīs of rationalist argumentation and the exercise of individual legal interpetation (ijtihād) in jurisprudence. Al-Baḥrānī (“one from al-Baḥrayn”) was born in the village of Māḥūz, on present-day Bahrain Island. His family fled to Qaṭīf, on the mainland (in present-day Saudi Arabia), following an attack on the island by
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei445.pdf