Ilm al-Din al-Sakhawi

علم الدين السخاوي

Draft card for Ilm al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sakhawi, the thirteenth-century jurist and grammarian, d. 1245; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile
Identifiers
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Linguistics

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People and things also explored

God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.