RT Article T1 Ašhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (m. 204/820) et l’évolution du maḏhab mālikite (iiie-vie/Ixe-xiie siècle) JF Islamic law and society VO 30 IS 4 SP 392 OP 441 A1 Salah, Clément LA French PB Brill YR 2023 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1866172018 AB Although recognized as an important legal authority in the formative period of Mālikī legal doctrine (2nd-3rd/8th-9th century), Ašhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 204/820) is portrayed in narrative sources after the 4th/10th century as a scholar who diverged from or even contradicted the master’s doctrine, Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795). This article examines Ašhab’s divergence and independency through the analysis of seven anecdotes consigned in the Mālikī biographical literature between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th centuries. By placing these anecdotes in their political, social and doctrinal contexts of writing we emphasize that: 1. Ašhab’s divergence is a historical construction that is 2. the corollary of the evolution of Mālikī legal doctrine between the 3rd/9th and 6th/12th centuries. In fine, we show that an interconnection exists between the biographical tradition built on Ašhab and the evolution of the Mālikī maḏhab (doctrinal school of law). K1 Historiographie K1 Norme et autorité K1 Égypte K1 Mālikisme K1 Écoles juridiques K1 droit musulman K1 Historiography K1 Ṭabaqāt K1 Norm and Authority K1 al-Andalus K1 Ifrīqiya K1 Egypt K1 Mālikism K1 Legal schools K1 Islamic Law DO 10.1163/15685195-bja10040