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Al-Hamawi
Al-Hamawi (الحموي), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar al-Shami, was a Shafi'i jurist and ascetic who served as chief judge of Baghdad from 478 AH until his death in 488 AH.
Al-Rafi'i (al-Jili, qadi of Baalbek and Damascus, d. 1244)
Al-Rafi'i al-Jili (Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Wahid) was a Shafi'i jurist and judge who served as qadi of Baalbek and then Damascus, dying in 1244.
Nizam al-Mulk (نظام الملك)
Nizam al-Mulk (نظام الملك), Abu ʿAli Hasan Tusi (1018–1092), Persian vizier of Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malikshah, founder of the Nizamiyya madrasas and author of the Siyasatnama, assassinated in 1092.
Saqr ibn Yahya al-Kilabi
Saqr ibn Yahya al-Kilabi, also known as Diya' al-Din Abu Muhammad, was a Shafi'i jurist and mufti of Aleppo who died in 1255 at the age of ninety-four.
Tahir al-Tabari
Tahir al-Tabari (أبو الطيب الطبري) was a leading Shafi'i jurist who served as judge of Baghdad's Karkh quarter and died in 1058 at age 102.
Yunus ibn Badran al-Dimyati
Yunus ibn Badran al-Dimyati (c. 1160–1226) was an Egyptian-born Shafi'i jurist who rose through treasury stewardship in Damascus to become chief judge of Syria in 1222, abridging al-Shafi'i's al-Umm and writing on inheritance law.