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Manāqib · Çeker §2.35

Manāqib al-Imām al-Aʿẓam

مناقب الإمام الأعظم

al-Zīlī الزيلي

Abū al-Layth Muḥarram b. Muḥammad b. ʿĀrif al-Zīlī

The first prose biography of Abū Ḥanīfa written in Anatolia, in fifteen chapters, composed so that his brother Shams al-Dīn Sīvāsī could turn it into verse. Draws more on legal works than on earlier manāqib.

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