At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
Life in time
In space
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Summary
Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Suja'i al-Shafi'i al-Azhari, from the town of al-Suja'iyya near al-Mahalla in Egypt, died in 1197/1782. 1 His father was a leading Sufi; he studied with him and with the great shaykhs of his time and taught both in his father's lifetime and after his death. 1
Works
He wrote much on the language sciences, law, jurisprudence, astronomy and arithmetic, including a treatise on the names of the lunar mansions, Luqtat al-jawahir fi al-khutut wal-dawa'ir, and Hidayat uli al-basa'ir wal-absar ila ma'rifat ajza' al-layl wal-nahar. 1
Connections
- Lived in
- Misr (Egypt)
- Authored
- Hidayat uli al-basa'ir wal-absar (al-Suja'i)
People and things also explored
Ahmad ibn al-Ha'im· Khalil ibn Ibrahim al-Azazi· Tantawi Jawhari· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· al-Adil takes Egypt — the Ayyubid house-war ends· Anglo-Egyptian War· Battle of Ridaniyya and the fall of the Mamluk state
Sources
- Contributions of Arab and Islamic Civilisation to Astronomy from the Scientific Manuscripts of al-Azhar Library, Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina (CULTNAT) and UNESCO, 2006 , p. 34
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Suja'i”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-al-sujai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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