The Alawite jurists through the book “Majma’ al-Adab fi Mu’jam al-Alqab” by Ibn al-Futi (d. 723 AH/1323 AD)

Abstract

Ibn Al-Fuwati is one of the most popular historian in the period that is between the mid-seventh century and the beginning of the third decade of the eight century. His book “ The literature Complex in the Title Lexicon” is one of the most important sources at that period of time. That period discusses the significant figures of the nation in different fields in many translations, especially the titles of those figures clarified in the book. Although the book has lost many of its parts, it provides the Arab library with a lot of materials about the figures that it has. The subject of this topic presents the Alawis scholars through this historical source. It has information about their lives. It also becomes the main source for the historians that come after Ibn Al-Fuwati, such as Al-Zahabi(748/1348) and Mohsen Al-Amen (1371/1952) etc.