Two new sections have been added to Fukahâ.
The Map shows the 117 places where al-Laknawī’s jurists were born, studied, taught, served as judges and died. The coordinates come from the al-Ṯurayyā project of Leipzig University, and the coloured regions follow Georgette Cornu’s atlas of the classical Islamic world. Click a city to list its jurists; filter by century or by the kind of tie, or type a jurist’s name to follow his journeys.
The Network draws the ties between teachers and students along the centuries, one column for every twenty-five years. Point at a name and his teachers light up in red, his students in green. The people al-Laknawī names briefly, such as “Abū Yūsuf”, “the author of the Hidāya” or “his father Ḥammād”, have been matched one by one to the jurists who have entries, which raised the number of ties between two jurists in the collection from 218 to 509.
Every jurist’s page now carries a small map of his places in the side column and his own chain of learning, two generations up and down, at the bottom.
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