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Death of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti on Rawda island, 911/1505

وفاة جلال الدين السيوطي في الروضة، ٩١١هـ/١٥٠٥م

18 October 1505 CE · 19 Jumada I 911 AH

Cairo

Al-Suyuti died in his house on Rawda island on 19 Jumada I 911 (18 October 1505). His scholarly reputation and the aura of godliness around him reached their zenith: people bought his clothes as if they were relics, and he left behind more than five hundred works 1 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Al-Suyuti died in his house on Rawda island on 19 Jumada I 911 (18 October 1505). His scholarly reputation and the aura of godliness around him reached their zenith: people bought his clothes as if they were relics, and he left behind more than five hundred works 1 2.

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Had participant
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
Occurred at
Cairo
During the reign of
al-Mustamsik

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Al-Suyuti’s complete retreat to Rawda island, 906/1501· Al-Suyuti takes charge of the Baybarsiyya and begins to withdraw, 891/1486· Al-Suyuti begins his formal studies, 864/1460· Death of al-Suyuti’s father, 855/1451· Al-Suyuti declares himself a mujtahid, c. 888/1483· Al-Suyuti revives hadith dictation at the mosque of Ibn Tulun, 872/1467· Al-Suyuti announces himself as the renewer of the ninth century, c. 898/1492· Al-Suyuti succeeds his father teaching at the mosque of Shaykhu, 867/1463

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 p. 914
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 468-470
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Al-Suyuti’s complete retreat to Rawda island, 906/1501

Al-Suyuti’s complete retreat to his house on Rawda island took place in 906/1501, following the conflict with the residents of the Baybarsiyya khankah, whom he regarded as pseudo-Sufis. Forced to reduce their salaries, he had to go into hiding to escape the persecution of Sultan Tuman Bay, who supported his adversaries, and was dismissed from his functions; in his house he concentrated on composing and revising his works.