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Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim (1341 – 1423 AH) was among contemporary scholars of | {{under construction}} | ||
Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim (1341 – 1423 AH) was among contemporary scholars of Tabataba'i Hakim family and a teacher of Najaf seminary. He became the head of the faculty of fiqh in Najaf after Shaykh Muhammad Rida Muzaffar. | |||
== His Birth == | == His Birth == | ||
Sayyid Muhammad Taqi was born in 1341 AH in Najaf. His father, Sayyid Muhammad | Sayyid Muhammad Taqi was born in 1341 AH in Najaf. His father, Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id b. Sayyid Husayn was a scholar and a teacher of fiqh and usul who passed away in 1975 in Najaf and had some works in form of marginal notes on references of fiqh and usul. | ||
== His Education == | == His Education == | ||
Sayyid Muhammad Taqi learned logic, rhetoric, fiqh and usul from his father, older brother Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Hakim, Shaykh Ali Thamir, Sayyid Yusuf Hakim and Sayyid Muhammad Ali Hakim. | Sayyid Muhammad Taqi learned logic, rhetoric, fiqh and usul from his father, older brother Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Hakim, Shaykh Ali Thamir, Sayyid Yusuf Hakim and Sayyid Muhammad Ali Hakim. | ||
He studied philosophy and history under Shaykh Muhammad Rida Muzaffar and studied higher levels of fiqh and usul under Sayyid Muhsin Hakim, Shaykh Husayn al-Hilli, Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al- | He studied philosophy and history under Shaykh Muhammad Rida Muzaffar and studied higher levels of fiqh and usul under Sayyid Muhsin Hakim, Shaykh Husayn al-Hilli, Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khu'i and Sayyid Hasan Bujnurdi. | ||
== Scholarly Activities == | == Scholarly Activities == | ||
=== Head of College === | === Head of College === | ||
He was a member of | He was a member of Jam'iyyah Muntada al-Nashr and after Shaykh Muhammad Rida Muzaffar, the first head of the College of fiqh in Najaf passed away, he took the position and taught usul and history as well as comparative fiqh. | ||
He made a lot of efforts in developing this college and asked lecturers of Baghdad University to come to the College of fiqh and teach history, sociology and psychology. He himself also began teaching comparative usul in Baghdad University from 1964 and also wrote many articles in journals such as Najaf wa al-Iman. | He made a lot of efforts in developing this college and asked lecturers of Baghdad University to come to the College of fiqh and teach history, sociology and psychology. He himself also began teaching comparative usul in Baghdad University from 1964 and also wrote many articles in journals such as Najaf wa al-Iman. | ||
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=== Supervisor of Theses === | === Supervisor of Theses === | ||
Sayyid Muhammad Taqi helped one of the PhD students of al-Azhar University in his thesis in usul with the title of Dalil al- | Sayyid Muhammad Taqi helped one of the PhD students of al-Azhar University in his thesis in usul with the title of Dalil al-'Aql 'Ind al-Shi'at al-Imamiyya and wrote a preface on it for publication. In that preface, he insisted on the necessity of the proximity of Islamic sects. | ||
=== Member of | === Member of Da'irat al-Ma'arif Council === | ||
He was a member of the council (Lajna) of writing of the | He was a member of the council (Lajna) of writing of the Mawsu'at al-Fiqh al-Islami [the Encyclopedia of Islamic Fiqh]. The purpose of writing this encyclopedia was to record and present jurisprudential rulings of Islamic sects without any change, modification or prioritizing. | ||
=== Scholarly Works === | === Scholarly Works === | ||
Sayyid Muhamad Taqi | Sayyid Muhamad Taqi Tababtaba'i Hakim had many works some of which are, | ||
* Al-Usul al- | * Al-Usul al-'amma li l-fiqh al-mutaqarin (Beirut, 1963) | ||
* Al-Ishtrak wa al-taraduf (Baghdad, 1965) | * Al-Ishtrak wa al-taraduf (Baghdad, 1965) | ||
* Qissat al-taqrib bayn al-madhahib al-Islamiyyah (Kuwait, 1978) | * Qissat al-taqrib bayn al-madhahib al-Islamiyyah (Kuwait, 1978) | ||
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* Malik al-Ashtar (Najaf, 1946) | * Malik al-Ashtar (Najaf, 1946) | ||
Al-Usul al- | Al-Usul al-'amma li l-fiqh al-mutaqarin is his most famous work. This book covers comparative issues of the principles of fiqh which Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim taught as the Entry to Comparative Fiqh for students of years three and Four of the college of fiqh and was published in Beirut after some revisions by him with the title of al-Usul al-'amma li l-fiqh al-mutaqarin in 1963. | ||
== His Capture and Demise == | == His Capture and Demise == | ||
Ba'th regime of Iraq captured Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim together with some other members of Hakim family and prisoned them but later released some of them due to their old age and illness. | |||
He passed away in Safar 1423 AH in Najaf. | He passed away in Safar 1423 AH in Najaf. | ||