Ašhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (m. 204/820) et l’évolution du maḏhab mālikite (iiie-vie/Ixe-xiie siècle)

Abstract

Abstract Although recognized as an important legal authority in the formative period of Mālikī legal doctrine (2nd-3rd/8th-9th century), Ašhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 204/820) is portrayed in narrative sources after the 4th/10th century as a scholar who diverged from or even contradicted the master’s doctrine, Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795). This article examines Ašhab’s divergence and independency through the analysis of seven anecdotes consigned in the Mālikī biographical literature between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th centuries. By placing these anecdotes in their political, social and doctrinal contexts of writing we emphasize that: 1. Ašhab’s divergence is a historical construction that is 2. the corollary of the evolution of Mālikī legal doctrine between the 3rd/9th and 6th/12th centuries. In fine, we show that an interconnection exists between the biographical tradition built on Ašhab and the evolution of the Mālikī maḏhab (doctrinal school of law).

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