At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Taj al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari, the ascetic preacher (d. 709 AH), pupil of Abu'l-Abbas al-Mursi of the Shadhili order. Al-Dhahabi describes him as 'one of the great opponents of Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya', whose funeral was widely attended and whose standing 'settled in souls' with a remarkable majesty 1.
He is famed for his Sufi and homiletic works, above all the Hikam al-Ata'iyya, which became one of the most commented books of the order.
Connections
- Studied under
- Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi
People and things also explored
Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-ata-allah-al-iskandari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.