Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi

Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn Muhammad al-Samarqandi (أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي; 944–983) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school and Quran commentator, who lived during the second half of the 10th century.

Works
Al-Samarqandī authored various books on theology and juridical works, including Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, بحر العلوم, a Quran exegesis, also known as Tafsīr as-Samarqandi; Tanbīh al-Ġāfilīn, تنبيه الغافلين; and the nawāzil-collections Kitāb al-Nawāzil fi al-furūʿ and Mukhtaṣar (which stand as unusual examples of Hanafi nawāzil, in a genre usually associated with the Maliki school of Islamic jurispriudence).

Studies and editions

 * Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī: Le traité Arabe Muḳaddima d'Abou-l-Laiṯ as-Samarḳandī en version Mamelouk-Kiptchak. - Warszawa : Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1962
 * Daiber, Hans: The Islamic concept of belief in the 4th/10th century : Abū l-Laiṯ as-Samarkandī's commentary on Abū Ḥanīfa (died 150/767) al-Fiqh al-absāṭ / Introduction, text and commentary by Hans Daiber. Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1995 (Studia Culturae Islamicae; 52)