Al-Hilli

Jamaluddin al -Hasan ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿ Alī ibn al - Hilli Mutahhar (Arabic: جمال الدين الحسن بن يوسف بن علي بن مطهر الحلي, DMG Ǧamāl ad - Din al - Ḥasan b. Yūsuf b. ʿ Alī b. Muṭahhar al - Hilli ) also briefly al - ʿ Allama al - Hilli (Arabic العلامة الحلي, DMG al - ʿ Allama al - Hilli, the high scholars from Hilla ') * December 15, 1250; † December 18, 1325, was one of the foremost Twelver theologians and jurists of the Middle Ages. He belonged to the rationalist school of al - Hilla and was a proponent of ijtihad.

Biography

Al - Hilli was born in the city of al - Hilla and studied philosophy, theology and Islamic law. 1305 he went to Persia and converted the Ilkhan Öldscheitü from Sunni to Shia Islam, who now proclaimed that branch of Islam in Persia. His grave is located at the Shrine of Imam 8 in Mashhad.

Works

Al- Hilli wrote more than 500 works on theology and religion.

Particularly well known is his compendium on Islamic legal theory ( usul al - fiqh ), entitled Mabādi ʾ al - ʿ ilm al - wuṣūl ila usul. Be treated here in twelve chapters linguistic foundations of textual hermeneutics ( 1), evaluation categories of actions ( 2) and don'ts ( 3), General and Specific (4) Summa Generic and Detailed (5) actions of the Prophet ( 6) Abrogation ( 7), ijma ʿ (8 ), News of the Prophet and the twelve imams ( 9), qiyas (10) weight (11) and ijtihad (12). In the last chapter he lists the conditions to be met by the mujtahid, ie the one who operates its own ijtihad. In addition to the knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, morphology, and logic, they also include sayings of the Prophet as well as the knowledge of the 500 quite relevant verses of the Koran. Al- Hilli was assumed that the ability to ijtihad at a person can also be confined to a particular field.

Other important works of al - Hillis are:

• L - Muntaha al - madhhab MATLAB fī Tahqiq, 15 -volume representation of the rules of worship according to the Imami teaching direction.
• Muḫtalaf aš -si ʿ a fī Ahkam aš sari ʿ a, representation of disputed among the Imami scholars questions the Sharia.
• Al - Bab al -Hadi ʿ Asar, short confession, which was commented on frequently.

Al- Hillis works are standard texts in Shiite Islam, today his writings are used as textbooks. In particular, the al - Khoi Foundation relies on his theories.

Sayings

Al - Hilli was based on a fundamentally flawed secular exercise of power:

His treatise on free will:

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