Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn Muhammad al-Samarqandi (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي, romanized: ʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī; 944–983) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school and Quran commentator, who lived during the second half of the 10th century.[1]
Works
Al-Samarqandī authored various books on theology and juridical works, including Baḥr al-ʿUlūm,
بحر العلوم, a Quran exegesis, also known as Tafsīr as-Samarqandi; Tanbīh al-Ġāfilīn, تنبيه الغافلين;[citation needed] and the nawāzil-collections Kitāb al-Nawāzil fi al-furūʿ and Mukhtaṣar (which stand as unusual examples of Hanafi nawāzil, in a genre usually associated with the Maliki school of Islamic jurispriudence).[2]
Studies and editions
Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī: Le traité Arabe Muḳaddima d'Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī en version Mamelouk-Kiptchak. - Warszawa : Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1962
Daiber, Hans: The Islamic concept of belief in the 4th/10th century : Abū l-Laiṯ as-Samarkandī's commentary on Abū Ḥanīfa (died 150/767) al-Fiqh al-absāṭ / Introduction, text and commentary by Hans Daiber. Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1995 (Studia Culturae Islamicae; 52)
