علي بن محمد المنوفي

علي بن محمد المنوفي

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf, Nur al-Din, Abu al-Hasan, al-Manufi of Egypt, known as al-Shadhili, a Maliki jurist and scholar. He studied with al-Nur al-Sanhuri, in whose school he learned law, and with al-Shihab ibn al-Aqta', Umar al-Tha'nai and al-Suyuti. The book gives 939 AH as his death year. His works include 'Umdat al-salik, Tuhfat al-musalli, Ghayat al-amani (a commentary on the treatise of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani), Kifayat al-talib al-rabbani and Shifa' al-'alil fi lughat Khalil. ¹