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Al-Qurtubi settles at Munyat Bani Khusayb in Upper Egypt, c. 660/1262

القرطبي يستقر بمنية بني خصيب في صعيد مصر، حوالي ٦٦٠هـ

c. 1261 CE · c. 660 AH

Munyat Ibn al-Khasib

Al-Qurtubi settled at Munyat Bani Khusayb in Upper Egypt, became its resident and laboured there on his great Qur'an commentary, filling it with every rarity 1. The Encyclopaedia of Islam confirms he settled at Munyat Abi l-Khusayb, where he died and was buried 2; the village stood prosperous on the Nile's east bank 3.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Egypt & Nile
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Al-Qurtubi settled at Munyat Bani Khusayb in Upper Egypt, became its resident and laboured there on his great Qur'an commentary, filling it with every rarity 1. The Encyclopaedia of Islam confirms he settled at Munyat Abi l-Khusayb, where he died and was buried 2; the village stood prosperous on the Nile's east bank 3.

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Al-Qurtubi composes al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an and his other books, c. 670/1272· al-Qurtubi· Munyat Ibn al-Khasib· Al-Qurtubi leaves al-Andalus for the East· Al-Qurtubi hears part of al-Mufhim from its author at Alexandria, 656/1258· Cordoba

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  1. Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Dar al-Risala al-Alamiyya edition) , 17/97
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 550
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 124
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Al-Qurtubi composes al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an and his other books, c. 670/1272

Al-Qurtubi assembled his Qur'an commentary in fifteen volumes, explained the Most Beautiful Names of God in two (al-Asna), and wrote al-Tadhkira on the matters of the hereafter, a commentary on al-Taqassi and other useful works. Al-Dhahabi said caravans carry his great commentary. The tafsir stands out for its wealth of hadiths, its attention to deriving rulings and clarifying the Law's meaning, and its sparing use of isra'iliyyat.