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I would add to this the name of ·a fourth scholar al-Mawardl, the learned Jurisconsult and political economist of Basra, whose monumental work al-Abkarri-us• Sultiiniyah is a high water-mark in the politico-religious literature of Islam.
The book comprises 21 chapters and 165 pages, in which Mawardi has discussed at length the proofs of the Prophet's mis• sion, the Qur'an as his miracle performed by Allah in order to prove the sincerity of His apostle; proofs of his infallibility, his miracles performed in deeds and words, his prayers answered by God, his warnings against things to happen after him, his miracles in the animal, the vegetable and the mineral worlds, prophecies of other prophets regarding his coming as the last prophet, the purities of his blood in his generation and birth, his moral conduct and virtues, his appearance and the establishment of his mission, the admission of the genii regarding his prophetship and their profession of Islam; these are the contents of this small treatise which furnishes very valuable information not only on the life of the Prophet but also on the customs, superstitions and beliefs of the pre-Islamic 1.
. Islamic law and jurisprudence was Mawardi's favourite subject in which he had specialized arid acquired a high degree of proficiency, especially in the Furii' (r J)'), or doctrine of applied Fiqh of the Shafi'ite school.
3 (2) In the year 428 Mawardi was sent by the caliph, with Abu• 'Abdillah al-Mardusti, as an ambassador to make peace between the Prince Jalal ud-Dawlah4 and his nephew Abu-Kalijar.