OverviewA teacher whose legal ideas spread through Syria and al-Andalus.CategoryScholarPeriodc. 707 – 774 CE
A lasting changeHis school of religious law once had followers in the Levant and al-Andalus. It later lost its separate following as other schools became more widespread.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Al-Awza‘i
What we knowMuch of his thinking survives because later scholars quoted and discussed it. A school can disappear while parts of its teaching remain in books.Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Al-Awza‘i
SourcesOriginal summaries of the cited sources. Qur’anic accounts, later traditions and historical estimates are distinguished; brief profiles do not settle scholarly disagreements.TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam — Al-Awza‘i
