The Leiden Arabic Humanities and Islamic Thought Blog features a post by Aun Hasan Ali about his recent contribution (co-authored with Hadi Qazwini and Yusuf Ünal) to Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries.
"Our contribution to the volume comes from a commentary titled al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya by the scion of a legendary family of Iraqi sayyids: Muḥsin b. al-Ḥasan al-Aʿrajī (d. 1812), also known as al-Muḥaqqiq al-Kāẓimī (not to be confused with Asad Allāh b. Ismāʿīl al-Tustarī [d. 1819 or 1821], the author of Kashf al-qināʿ). A sharp critic of Akhbārism, al-Aʿrajī is counted among the foremost champions of Uṣūlism in the eighteenth century. The original text, al-Wāfiya fī uṣūl al-fiqh by al-Fāḍil al-Tūnī (d. 1660), contains one of the earliest responses to Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarābādī's (d. 1626) devastating criticism of developments in Twelver Shīʿī law since Ilkhānid times."
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