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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
al-Aṣmaʿī
Arab scholar
Sayyid Quṭb
Egyptian writer
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
British scholar
al-Jāḥiẓ
Muslim theologian and scholar
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
Leo Rosten
American writer
Richard Kostelanetz
American author
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Alaa al-Aswany
Egyptian author
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and feminist
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer
Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author
Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm
Egyptian author