At a glance
- Roles
- Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Saghir ibn Yusuf al-Baji, a Tunisian historian. The encyclopaedia says that his full name is often misquoted, because he is famous under the kunya "al-Saghir al-Baji". He was born in 1109 AH (1698 CE) and died in 1185 AH (1772 CE). 1
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.34
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Baji, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Saghir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-baji-muhammad-al-saghir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.