Mohamed Bayram II

Mohamed Bayram II, born on 28 October 1748 in Tunis[1] and died on 23 October 1831,[2] is a Tunisian scholar and cleric.

Biography

Son of Mohamed Bayram I, he belongs to the Bayram family notable for being native from Turkey. His mother was the daughter of the Hanafi Mufti Baroudi Hussein. Mohamed Bayram II learned fiqh and hadith from his father, tajwid from Sheikh Mohamed Qarbattaq and other religious sciences from Sheikh Salah Ibn Abi Kawech.[3]

He succeeded his father as Imam of Youssef Dey Mosque and taught at the University of Ez-Zitouna. In 1778, he was appointed as a qadi in Tunis before returning to teaching in 1780.[4]

His father was appointed as a Hanafi mufti in 1801 by the sovereign Hammuda ibn Ali and was at the head of the Sharia board until his death. He published a serie of books on historical and genealogical dimension of Hanafi. He frequently used the Maliki school to take the arguments of his fatwas.

He still has a reputation as a prolific worker.

Works

He also wrote a brief history of his family since his arrival in Tunis with the contingent of Sinan, several works on Islamic jurisprudence such as the uniqueness of God and a book on the Muslim calendar based on the calculation and observation of the moon (قلادة اللآل في نظم حكم رؤية الهلال).

References

  1. Ibn Abi Dhiaf, Present of people nowadays. Chronic of Tunisian kings and the fundamental pact, vol. VII, éd. Maison tunisienne de l'édition, Tunis, 1990, p. 158
  2. Ibn Abi Dhiaf, op. cit., p. 162
  3. Ibn Abi Dhiaf, op. cit., pp. 158–159
  4. Ibn Abi Dhiaf, op. cit., p. 159
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