Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi

عبد الرحمن الثعالبي

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An Algerian scholar linked to the Tha'aliba tribe, who lived on the Mitija plain.

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Roles
Scholar · writer
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Maghreb
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Kafiyaji · al-Shihab al-Hijazi · Badr al-Din al-Ja'fari al-Nabulsi · 'Ali ibn Sudun · al-Sayyid al-Nassaba Husayn

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Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Makhluf al-Tha'alibi al-Jaza'iri (786–875 AH, around 1385–1470 CE) was an Algerian scholar, attributed to the Tha'aliba tribe that settled the plain of Mitija. 1

A second source is needed for his works and his teachers.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Command, prohibition and capacity

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-rahman-al-tha-alibi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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The seven ahruf

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