al-Banna Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad

البنا شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد

Linguist from Damietta in Egypt, described by biographers as master of the Arabic language and of the Islamic sciences, whose surviving works number about five books.

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Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Region
Egypt & Nile
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موجز

شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد الدمياطي، المعروف بالبنا، عالم لغوي من دمياط في مصر. تصفه كتب التراجم بأنه أمسك بزمام اللغة العربية وملك ناصية العلوم الإسلامية. وتذكر أن مصنفاته لم تتجاوز خمسة كتب في علوم مختلفة. 1

تواريخ حياته وأسماء كتبه غير مسجلة في بيانات المتحف، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari· Ahmad al-Hamlawi· Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya· al-Akhfash al-Akbar· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada

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. “al-Banna Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-banna-shihab-al-din-ahmad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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