At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ibrahim al-Dajwi, the Egyptian grammarian; he took from al-Shihab Ibn al-Marhal, Ibn Hisham and others, excelled in Arabic and kept the people busy with it — his chief work a commentary on the Alfiyya — and had a ready wit 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 21
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibrahim al-Dajwi, the grammarian”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibrahim-al-dajwi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.