Mohamed Bayram II, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Tunisian scholar and imam
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Place of Birth: Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
About Mohamed Bayram II
- Mohamed Bayram II (28 October 1748 in Tunis – 23 October 1831) is a Tunisian scholar and cleric. 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.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.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 series 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.
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