Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, ʿAbd al-ʿĀlī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ahmed, Asad Q.
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ʿAbd al-ʿAlī b. Niẓām al-Dīn b. Quṭb al-Dīn al-Sihālawī Baḥr al-ʿUlūm (b. c.1135/1723, d. 1125/1810) was a leading Indian scholar of fiqh (law), uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), manṭiq (logic), falsafa (philosophy), and kalām (theology). He was drawn to Ṣūfism, and he was considered a mujtahid (authoritative interpreter of the law) in positive law among the Ḥanafī scholars of his period. Born in Lucknow, he completed his initial training under his father by the age of seventeen and went on to adopt