Abu Zayd al-Dabusi

Died1038/39

Bukhara

Notable worksAsrār ('Mysteries'), Takwīm lil Adilla (‘System of demonstrations’), Taalīkas.

Notable ideasdialectics

InfluencedSalah al-Dīn al-Ṣafadi

Abu Zayd al-Dabusi
Died	1038/39 Bukhara
Academic work
Notable works	Asrār ('Mysteries'), Takwīm lil Adilla (‘System of demonstrations’), Taalīkas.
Notable ideas	dialectics
Influenced	Salah al-Dīn al-Ṣafadi

Abū Zayd al-Dabūsī; he is Abd Allāh, or Ubaid Allāh ibn Umar ibn ‘Īsa al-Dabūsi al-Bukhārī Hanafī al-Qadī (عبد الله أو عبيد الله بن عمر بن عيسى الدّبوسي البخاري الحنفي القاضي); a founding jurist and most eminent scholar of the Hanafī school in the eleventh century.^{[citation needed]} His reputation for learning was proverbial. He established the science of dialectics supporting his analysis and argument on examples extracted from scripture. He composed several taalīkas.^{[n 1]} Among his writings were Asrār ('Mysteries')^{[n 2]} and the Takwīm lil Adilla (‘system of demonstrations’) ^{[n 3]}. Ad-Dabūsi died in the city of Bukhara in 430 AH / 1038–9.

The name Dabūsi derives from the town Dabūsiya, which lies between Bukhāra and Samarkand, and from where a number of scholars hailed. ^[1]