At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesLinguistics
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Tahir Isma'il ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'id al-Ansari al-Sarqusti, a Qur'an reciter, grammarian and man of letters from Zaragoza in al-Andalus, who moved to Egypt and settled there. He died around 455 AH (1062 CE). The date rests on one source and needs an additional source. 1
People and things also explored
Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ansari-al-sarqusti-ismail/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.