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'''Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī''' ({{lang-ar|أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ|Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī}})<ref>{{cite journal|last=Calder|first=N.|date=2012-04-24|title=al-Ṭaḥāwī|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-tahawi-COM_1150|journal=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|language=en}}</ref> (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as '''at-Tahawi''' ({{lang-ar|ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ|aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī}}), was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[Arabs|Arab]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Ibn-Ḫallikān|first=Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9jd70CULyYC&q=%22Tahawi%22+%22Azd%22&pg=PA52|title=Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, 1|date=1843|publisher=Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ingrid Mattson|author-link=Ingrid Mattson|title=The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gpcuv6PGyzgC|date=2013|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=9781118257098|page=146}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Shafiq Abouzayd|title=ARAM: Zoroastrianism in the Levant and the Amorites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nI98DAAAQBAJ|date=2014|publisher=Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies|isbn=9781326717438|page=195}}</ref> [[Hanafi]] [[fiqh|jurist]] and [[Athari|Traditionalist]] [[aqidah|theologian]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=El Shamsy|first=Ahmed|year=2007|title=The First Shāfiʿī: The Traditionalist Legal Thought of Abū Yaʿqūb al-buwayṭī (d. 231/846)|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40377944|journal=Islamic Law and Society|publisher=Brill Publishers|volume=14|issue=3|page=327|jstor=40377944 |quote="Al-Tahawi became a Hanafi, but his methodology in both law and theology retained a distinctively traditionalist character."|via=JSTOR}}</ref> He studied with his uncle [[al-Muzani]] and was a [[Shafi'i]] jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. He is known for his work [[al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah]], a summary of [[Sunni]] [[Islamic creed]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Masooda Bano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIHCDwAAQBAJ|title=The Revival of Islamic Rationalism: Logic, Metaphysics and Mysticism in Modern Muslim Societies|date=2020|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9781108485319|page=82}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Scott C. Lucas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDUbwLZKXOsC|title=Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam: The Legacy of the Generation of Ibn Sa'd, Ibn Ma'in, and Ibn Hanbal|date=2004|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|isbn=9789004133198|page=93}}</ref> which influenced Hanafis in [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Oliver Leaman|author-link=Oliver Leaman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iX-8BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT539|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy|date=2015|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|isbn=9781472569462}}</ref>