al-Ḥumaydī al-Andalusī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ávila, María Luisa
Leiden
Brill
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr Fuṭūh/Fattūḥ b. ʿAbdallāh b. Futūḥ b. Ḥumayd b. Yaṣil al-Azdī (d. 488/1095), called al-Ḥumaydī , was an Andalusī traditionist, jurist (faqīh , pl. fuqahāʾ) , historian, and poet, best known for his biographical dictionary of Andalusī scholars Jadhwat al-muqtabis fī dhikr wulāt al-Andalus wa-asmāʾ ruwāt al-ḥadīth wa-ahl al-fiqh wa-l-adab wa-dhawī l-nabāha wa-l-shiʿr ("Fire from the embers on the governors, ḥadīth transmitters, faqīh s, men of letters, notables and poets of al-