al-Dāmaghānī, Abū ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Wheeler, Brannon M.
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Dāmaghānī (d. 478/1085) was a well known Ḥanafī jurist and chief qāḍī (judge) of Baghdad. In later accounts sometimes referred to as "the elder" (al-kabīr) , Abū ʿAbdallāh was the first in a long family line of al-Dāmaghānīs to hold the position of qāḍī or other administrative positions in Baghdad, up through the beginning of the seventh/thirteenth century. Al-Dāmaghānī was born in 398/1007 in Dāmghān, in the