APPENDIX I

CHRONOLOGY OF SHĀFI'I'S WRITINGS

In this diagram the uninterrupted lines represent explicit references from one book to another and indications of similar certainty, the dotted lines other probable conclusions on the relative chronology of Shāfiʿī's writings. Two absolute points of reference are the death in A.H. 198 of ʿAbdalraḥmān b. Mahdī at whose request, according to a well-attested statement (Bulqīnī in Umm, i. 122, n. 3), Shāfiʿī wrote his Risāla, and Shāfiʿī's arrival in Egypt in A.H. 198 (mentioned first in Kindī, 154), an event which accounts for the references to the Egyptian Medinese as "the people of our country" in his later writings. The earliest reference to Shāfiʿī's death in A.H. 204 occurs in Masʿūdī, Murūj, vii. 49 f.

before A.H. 198

A.H. 198: references to the Egyptian Medinese begin

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