c. 820 AD
Al-Shāfiʿī and legal theory
Religion · Islam · Sunni · Derecho y educación
His Risāla is a landmark of Islamic legal theory; its date is approximate, based on his death in 820 and textual transmission.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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