At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Colonial Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesAstronomy and timekeeping
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari, an Egyptian Islamic philosopher (1870–1940 CE), who made contributions to Qur'anic exegesis and the natural sciences 1.
His works and the details of his life need an additional source. Both dates come from a single source.
People and things also explored
Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad· Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers· Sizes of the heavenly bodies· Distances of the heavenly bodies from the Earth· The seven ahruf· The seven climates· Hadith· The second motion (the planets' own motion along the zodiac)
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. “Tantawi Jawhari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/tantawi-jawhari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.