al-Suyūṭī: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Jalāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī
Born 1445 • Cairo • Egypt
Died October 17, 1505 (aged 60) • Cairo • Egypt
Subjects Of Study Qurʾān

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Sayyid Quṭb
Egyptian writer
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
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Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
British scholar
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al-Jāḥiẓ
Muslim theologian and scholar
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Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
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Leo Rosten
American writer
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Richard Kostelanetz
American author
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al-Aṣmaʿī
Arab scholar
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
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Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
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Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan
Swiss theologian and scholar
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Alaa al-Aswany
Egyptian author
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer
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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author