Muhammad al-Khudari

Shaykh Muhammad al-Khudari was the author of Nur al-Yaqin fi Sirat Sayyid al-Mursalin; the title page of its fourth edition (1344/1926) presents him as an inspector at the Ministry of Education and former teacher of Islamic history at the Egyptian University. ¹ He also wrote lectures on the history of the Islamic nations (Muhadarat Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamiyya). ²

In the preface of Nur al-Yaqin he calls himself "Muhammad al-Khudari, son of the late Shaykh Afifi al-Bajuri", and says that from his youth he enjoyed reading histories and tales of past peoples, finding them "the best refiner and the most sincere teacher" of the mind. ³ He relates that he wrote the sira after coming to al-Mansura and meeting the judge Mahmud Bek Salim, who wanted an accessible biography for ordinary Muslims. ^{3 4}