Aspects of political, economic and social life in the era of Imam Al-Tawudi

Abstract

Discussing a scholarly figure that is known in the Maliki school of thought - and whose name was associated with one of the most important explanations in Khalil’s Mukhtasar- requires any researcher of Maliki jurisprudence to present the general conditions in which Imam al- Tawudi lived in, and to shed a light on some crucial aspects, especially knowing that he was one of the scholars of Faz city in Morocco (died 1209AH), where the scholars have a special presence and a distinguished position in this school of thought. He also had a prominent presence in the events that happened in Morocco during that period. Henceforth, this study aims to shed a light on aspects of this era to know the environment in which the Imam was raised and how it impacted him. This study (Aspects of the political, economic and social life in the era of Imam Al-Tawudi) is divided into two sections; the first section includes a general background of Imam Al-Tawudi bin Souda, and the second section discussed the circumstances accompanying the life of Imam Al-Tawudi. The second section is divided into four subsections namely, the political aspect, the economic aspect, the social aspect, and cases of religious issues that were discussed by the scholars in that period. The researcher used the historical, the descriptive, and the inductive method to reach the goals of this study.