al-Khuwayyi Abu al-Abbas Shams al-Din Ahmad
الخويي أبو العباس شمس الدين أحمد
1187 CE · 583 AH – 1240 CE · 637 AH
Lived about fifty-five years, died in Hebron and was buried there in 637 AH (1240 CE).
Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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موجز
أبو العباس شمس الدين أحمد الخويي. وُلد سنة 583هـ (1187م) وعاش نحو خمسة وخمسين عاماً، وتوفي في الخليل ودُفن بها سنة 637هـ (1240م)، بحسب «موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء». 1
Sources
- 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-Khuwayyi Abu al-Abbas Shams al-Din Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khuwayyi-abu-al-abbas-shams-al-din-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.