Why and What Did Legal Scholars Write in Medieval Islamic Societies?

Maribel Fierro’s motivating question is “[w]hy books dealing with specific subjects were written at times and in contexts.” Relying on a dataset compiled by Historia de los Autores y Transmisores al-Andalus (HATA), project she directs that aims to map the intellectual production of al-Andalus, author observes majority scholarship produced Andalusi scholars fiqh poetry texts. The former, argues, likely explained professional opportunities enabled engaging study time compared other genres. What makes such research possible breadth dataset, no small way thanks collegial sense some during era, exemplified case Ibn al-Ṭallāʿ(d. 497/1104) whose Kitāb aqḍiyat rasūl Allāh lists thirty-four sources he relied on.