At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
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- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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Overview
Khalid ibn Abdallah ibn Abi Bakr al-Azhari, an Egyptian grammarian and philologist. He took Arabic from the scholars of his age in Egypt. 1
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Life and renown
Khalid b. 'Abd Allah b. Abi Bakr al-Azhari, an Egyptian grammarian, was born at Jirja in Upper Egypt, whence the ethnic appellation al-Jirjawi is sometimes applied to him. He died at Cairo in 905 AH (1499). He enjoyed great renown in his time, and al-Suyuti is reckoned among his pupils. 2
Works
His grammatical treatise is the Muqaddima al-Azhariyya fi 'ilm al-'arabiyya, printed at Bulaq (1252 AH) with his own commentary and in later editions with glosses by various schoolmen. He wrote a number of grammar manuals, a commentary on the commentary of Ibn Hisham on the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik, and commentaries on the Burda of al-Busiri and on the Jarrumiyya. 2
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 870-871
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islam.museum contributors. “Khalid al-Azhari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khalid-al-azhari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.