Life and setting
Al-Marghinani worked in Transoxiana, a major centre of Hanafi scholarship. His learning reflected the accumulated teaching of the school's earlier authorities.
Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam
Work and legacy
Al-Hidaya combines concise rulings with explanation and comparison. Commentaries, teaching traditions and translations carried its influence far beyond Central Asia.
Source: TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam
