Al-Azhari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
الأزهري محمد بن أحمد
981 CE · 370 AH
A lexicographer and man of letters from Herat, a Shafi'i. He studied jurisprudence first, then became known for the Arabic language; his best-known work is Tahdhib al-Lugha.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
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Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali· Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad· Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf
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-Azhari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/azhari-muhammad-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.