Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin

Overview

An institutional encyclopaedia in eight volumes, with biographies of the scholars and men of letters of the Arabs and Muslims, arranged alphabetically. It is one of the projects of the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science. ¹

Its contents and structure

For each figure it gathers his lineage, upbringing, achievements and writings, with indexes and sources. ¹ The first volume begins with "al-Abri" and ends with "al-Asir". The copy consulted contains volumes 1–5 and 7–8; volume 6 is missing. ¹

Shams al-Din Ibn Tulun

Ibn Tulun the historian of Damascus — b. about 880 in the upper Sahm of the Salihiyya, trained by his uncle Jamal al-Din and licensed by al-Suyuti in writing; teacher of Hanafis at the Shaykh al-Islam Abu 'Umar madrasa and imam of the Sulaymiyya, author of the sixty-part 'Ta'liqat' notebooks full of compilations and al-Suyuti's works; his pupils included al-Taybi, 'Ala' al-Din b. 'Imad, and the muftis al-Nabulsi, Ibn Sultan, al-'Aynawi and Ibn Abi al-Wafa; died Sunday 11 Jumada I [954] and left no offspring.

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin

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Shams al-Din Ibn Tulun