Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Azhar ibn Talha al-Azhari al-Harawi, a philologist and man of letters, a Shafi'i in school, from Herat. He first took interest in jurisprudence, then language came to dominate him, and he became known for it. His best-known book is "Tahdhib al-Lugha". 1
He died in 370 AH / 981 CE. 1
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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-Azhari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/azhari-muhammad-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.