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Arab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar (767–820)
Also known as: Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Idris Al-Shafi'i, Asch-Schafii, Imam al-Shafi'i, Imam Shafi, Muhammad ibn Idris al- Schafii, Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i
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- al-Risālah
- Thulāthīyat al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī (1989)
- al- Imām Muḥammad ibn Idris al-Shāfiʻi's al-Risāla fī uṣūl al-fiqh (1997)
- Aḥkām al-Qurʼān (1975)
- Ikhtilāf al-Ḥadīth (1985)