Abd Allah al-Sharqawi — alsufi.net biography

Biography of Abd Allah al-Sharqawi on the alsufi.net Sufi site, among its 'notables of Sufism in the thirteenth Hijri century'; it states that 'he excelled in Shafi'i fiqh, language and logic' and that 'al-Sharqawi was a shaykh of the Khalwati order', lists his hashiya on Tahrir Tanqih al-Lubab (in Shafi'i fiqh), his rectorship of al-Azhar from 1208 AH and his death in Cairo in 1227 AH.