Afuqay, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim al-Hajari

أفوقاي أحمد بن القاسم الحجري

1570 CE · 977 AH

An Andalusian from the Red Stone quarter near Granada. He lived under Spanish rule and was known as al-Shihab.

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At a glance

Roles
writer · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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موجز

أحمد بن القاسم بن الفقيه قادم الحجري الأندلسي، ويلقب بالشهاب، وعُرف بأفوقاي. أندلسي من محلة الحجر الأحمر قرب غرناطة، وعاش تحت الحكم الإسباني. 1

تسجل بيانات المتحف مولده سنة 977هـ (نحو 1570م) من هذا المصدر وحده، فهو يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي. 1

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Afuqay, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim al-Hajari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/afuqay-ahmad-ibn-al-qasim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.