Ḥanafī fiqh and the Mongol Conquest: ʿAbd Allāh b. Maḥmūd al-Mawṣilī’s (d. 683/1284) al-Mukhtār li-l-fatwā

This article examines a renowned work of Ḥanafī jurisprudence (fiqh), composed in 7th/13thcentury Iraq, in light of the development of the Ḥanafī school of law (madhhab) from the pre-Mongol through the Mongol era. In the context of the profound and wide-ranging historical transformations that affected the central and eastern Islamic lands in the Mongol period, the paper will address questions relating to the development of the Ḥanafī madhhab in the transition from the “classical” to the “post-classical” period, using ʿAbd Allāh b. Maḥmūd al-Buldajī al-Mawṣilī’s (d. 683/1284) al-Mukhtār li-l-fatwā as an anchor, rooted in Mongol Baghdad, to look both forwards and backwards.