Al-Irbili, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn

الإربلي أحمد بن الحسين

1193 CE · 589 AH – 1241 CE · 639 AH

A scholar from Irbil, one of the learned men of the seventh century AH.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Thaqafi al-Jayyani Muhammad ibn al-Hasan · Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf · يوسف البياسي

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أحمد بن الحسين بن أحمد بن معالي الإربلي، عالم من إربل، من أهل المعرفة في القرن السابع الهجري. وُلد سنة 589هـ (1193م) وتوفي سنة 639هـ (1241م). 1

لا تذكر البيانات مؤلفاته ولا شيوخه، وهذا يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.108
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Irbili, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-irbili-ahmad-ibn-al-husayn/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.