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- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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- Arabia
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Shihab al-Din al-Tawashi al-Ashashi
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Asadi al-ʿAbshi, known by his grandfather's name, al-Tawashi. He was born after 760 AH. He was brought as a child of three to Ibn Jamaʿa, and he heard from al-ʿAnbaʾ al-Hindi and others. He was granted a licence by al-Kamal Ibn Habib, Muhammad Ibn Jabir, Abu Jaʿfar al-Ruʿayni, Abu al-Fadl al-Nuwayri, al-Zarandi and al-Umyuti and others. He was a good and pious man who kept apart from people.
He died in Mecca on Friday, the seventeenth of Shaʿban 1.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 192
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