Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghammī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Fadel, Mohammad
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghammī (716-803/1316-1401) was the leading jurist of his generation in the Mālikī school-one of the four major Sunnī schools of Islamic law-in Ifrīqiya (present-day Tunisia). The eighth/fourteenth century was a turbulent time for Islamic North Africa, with three different dynasties competing for control: the Ḥafṣids (627-982/1229-1574), whose capital was in Ifrīqiya; the ʿAbd al-Wādids (633-962/1236-1555), who were centred in Tilimsān (Tlemcen), al-Maghrib al-Awsaṭ (present-