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NAWAWI [See also:

ABU ZAIARIYYA See also:IBN SHARAF UN-NAWAWI (I233-1278), Arabian writer, was See also:born at Nawa near See also:Damascus. In the latter See also:city he studied from his eighteenth See also:year, and there, after making the See also:pilgrimage in 1253, he settled as a private See also:scholar until 1267, when he succeeded Abu Shama as See also:professor of tradition at the Ashrafiyya school. He died at Nawa from overwork. His See also:manual of Moslem See also:law according to the Shafi'ite school has been edited with See also:French See also:translation by See also:van den Bergh, 2 vols., See also:Batavia (1882-1884), and published at See also:Cairo (1888). The Tandhib ul-Asma'i has been edited as the See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary of Illustrious Men chiefly at the Beginning of See also:Islam by F. Wiistenfeld (See also:Gottingen, 1842-1847). The Tagrib wa Taisir, an introduction to the study of tradition, was published at Cairo, 189o, with See also:Suyuti's commentary. It has been in See also:part translated into French by M. Marcais in the See also:Journal asiatique, See also:series ix., vols. 16-i8 (1900-19o1). Nawawi's collection of the See also:forty (actually forty-two) See also:chief traditions has been frequently published with commentaries in Cairo. For other See also:works see C.

Brockelmann's Gesch. der arabischen Litteratur, vol. i. (See also:

Weimar, 1898), PP. 395-397. (G. W.

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