al-Khushanī, Ibn Ḥārith - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ávila, María Luisa
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Asad Ibn Ḥārith al-Khushanī (d. 361/971 or 371/981) was an Andalusian jurist of Islamic law (faqīh) , historian, and poet. Born in al-Qayrawān in what is now Tunisia, he moved to al-Andalus when still a young man. He is especially remembered for three biographical compilations: Ṭabaqāt ʿulamā ʾ Ifrīqiya , Quḍāt Qurṭuba , and Akhbār al-fuqahā ʾ wa-l-muḥaddithīn . Although he is now often referred to by his nisba , al-Khushanī, his contemporaries generally knew him as Ibn Ḥārith. Al-Khushanī's