At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Maghreb · Egypt & Nile · Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Shaykh Zayn al-Din Abu'l-Husayn Yahya ibn 'Abd al-Mu'ti ibn 'Abd al-Nur al-Zawawi, of the great Zawawa tribe of Ifriqiya; Hanafi jurist and grammarian, born 564, who taught Arabic for a time at Egypt and Damascus and transmitted from al-Qasim ibn 'Asakir and others; the most eminent of al-Jazuli's pupils, singular in Arabic, author of the famous Alfiyya and more; he died at Egypt in Dhu'l-Qa'da 628 — his grave near Imam al-Shafi'i's tomb. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 129
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن معطي الزواوي صاحب الألفية”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-muti-al-zawawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.