In 700/1301 the Cairene scholar Najm al-Dīn Ibn al-Rifʿa wrote a short juridical treatise entitled Kitāb al-nafāʾis fī adillat hadm al-kanāʾis in which he argued for the destruction of all churches and synagogues in Cairo. Some chroniclers report that this text was used to legitimise popular attacks on, and the destruction of, churches, but shortly thereafter, Ibn al-Rifʿa’s opinion was declared invalid by a council of prominent jurists. In addition to its juridical arguments for church destruction, Ibn al-Rifʿa suggests that the treatise was meant to function as a challenge to the author’s peers. I argue that al-Nafāʾis reflects ideas about the normative application of Shāfiʿī fiqh and that it can serve as a lens through which we can reconstruct a complex picture of the performance and negotiation of legal authority in the Mamluk period.

开瑞大学的学者纳伊姆·丁·伊本·里法阿在700/1301年写了一篇简短的司法论文，名为《Kitābal-nafāʾisfīadillat hadm al-kanāʾis》，在其中他主张破坏开罗的所有教堂和犹太教堂。有些编年史报告说，这段文字是用来合法化流行的攻击，并且，教堂被毁，但此后不久，伊本·里夫“一个意见是由著名的法学家委员会宣布无效。伊本·里法阿（Ibn al-Rifʿa）除了其关于毁灭教堂的法律论点外，还建议该论文旨在对作者的同龄人构成挑战。我认为al-Nafāʾis反映了有关Shāfiʿī fiqh的规范应用的思想 它可以作为一个镜头，通过它我们可以重构马穆鲁克时期的绩效和法律授权谈判的复杂图景。