al-Lālakāʾī, Abū l-Qāsim - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Holtzman, Livnat
Leiden
Brill
(1,660 words)
Abū l-Qāsim Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥasan b. Manṣūr al-Rāzī al-Ṭabarī al-Lālakāʾī (d. Tuesday 6 Ramaḍān 418/10 October 1027) was an expert in ḥadīth and the Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law. His nisba , al-Lālakāʾī (the variants al-Lālikāʾī, al-Alkaʾī, and al-Alkāyī are also mentioned in the biographical sources), means "the cobbler." This name derives from the Persian lālak or lālakā , meaning "slippers" or "one-sized footwear" (Dozy, 2:516). As there is a dearth of details about al-Lālakāʾī's biography, it is