Ibn Arafa

Ibn Arafa was a jurist of the Maliki school from Tunis, the leading religious scholar of the Hafsid capital in the fourteenth century. He served as imam of the Zaytuna Mosque and mufti of Tunis, and his works on Maliki law, especially his concise legal compendium, were studied across the Maghreb for centuries. He was a teacher and later a rival of Ibn Khaldun.