Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Husayni al-Shirazi al-Abiji, the imam-scholar; born at Shiraz, took from the shaykhs, entered Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and Syria and received from some of their scholars and transmitted — the kings of his age favoured him; he died at Mecca in Jumada I 895 at seventy-one. 1
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 357
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Husayni al-Shirazi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sayyid-ahmad-shirazi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.