Scientific Activities of Ibn Qadi Shahba (d. 874 AH/1469 AD)

The research sheds light on the overlap between the legal and historical sciences in the thought of Ibn Qadi Shahba, which helps to understand the nature of scientific production at that stage (Al-Zarkali, 2002, p. 47). The study of the scientific activities undertaken by Ibn Qadi Shahba is of great importance, as the subject reveals a distinguished personality of many stripes and interests, a man who left his mark clearly and clearly on the scientific and judicial arena in the Levant, and he was a scholar referred to as Lebanon, he was an ocean of knowledge, in whose personality is manifested a rare breadth of horizon and unlimited diversity in the various fields of science. Through the analysis of his scientific activities, it was found that his historical activity occupies a central place in his scientific giving, due to his accuracy in documentation, and his keenness to record contemporary events and link them to their temporal and social context.