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Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli

ابن ظفر الصقلي

c. 1175 CE · c. 570 AH

Hujjat al-Din Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli (d. c. 570) — the Sicilian adib; author of Sulwan al-Muta' fi Udwan al-Atba' (written for a Sicilian commander in 554), a Quran commentary, glosses on al-Hariri's Durrat al-Ghawwas, and two commentaries on the Maqamat 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

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Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, surnamed Hujjat al-Din; one of the accomplished adibs and author of delightful works — among them the Sulwan al-Muta' fi 'Udwan al-Atba' composed for a certain commander in Sicily in 554, Khayr al-Bishar bi-Khayr al-Bashar, the large Manba' on Qur'an exegesis, Nasma' al-Abna', a hashiya on al-Hariri's Durrat al-Ghawwas, and two commentaries on the Maqamat, one long and one short; Shaykh Taj al-Din al-Kindi said of him after debating him at Hama: Taj al-Din knows more grammar than I, and I know more philology than he. 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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