Ibn Aqil
Abū l - Wafa Ibn ʿ Alī ʾ ʿ Aqil (Arabic ابو الوفاء ابن عقيل born 1040 in Baghdad, † 1119 ) was a hanbalitischer lawyer and theologian and a major figure of Baghdad during the late 11th century. In 1066 ( = 458 AH ), he assumed management of the prestigious " Circle of Teaching Barmacides " ( ḥalqat al - Barāmika ) was entrusted in the Mosque of the Caliph al - Mansur on presentation of a Hanbali merchant named Abu Mansur. This, however, drew him to the enmity of a rival Hanbali scholar, Abū ʿ far Dascha, who had also made hopes for this post. Ibn ʿ Aqil was therefore particularly vulnerable because he was close to the Mu ʿ tazila and with the mystical teachings of Mansur al - Hallaj, who was considered a heretic who sympathized. After his mentor Abu Mansur had died in 1068, he had to in order to escape the wrath of the followers Abū ʿ Dascha fars, hide. In September 1072 he finally decided publicly to his office, where he distanced himself from his earlier writings in favor of the Mu ʿ tazila and Hallaj. Among the most important works that Ibn ʿ Aqil has written his Summa belongs to Islamic legal theory, Kitaab al - usul al - fiqh Wadih fī.