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Muhammad Abu Zahra

محمد أبو زهرة

†

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Muhammad Abu Zahra, Egypt's great twentieth-century jurist of the Maliki and legal-school histories; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
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Life in time

18751900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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Taught
Wahbah al-Zuhayli

People and things also explored

Mahmud Shaltut· Damascus· Wahbah al-Zuhayli

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Abu Zahra”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-abu-zahra/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Mahmud Shaltut

Former Grand Imam of al-Azhar (d. 1383 AH / 1963 CE), born in Munyat Mansur in Beheira; he held the Grand Imamate from 1378 AH and championed the Islamic Research Academy; his book Islam, Creed and Law is the source for this card. Dates come from Muhammad Imara's introduction and are not yet checked against a second source.