Al-Akhdari
Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Al-Akhdari سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الأخضري | |
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| Born | 1515 |
| Died | 1575 |
| Religion | Islam Sunni |
| Home town | Biskra (Algeria) |
| Lineage |  Dynasty of Al-Akhdari |
| Other names | Ibn Al-Akhdari |
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Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-Bīsīkrī Arabic :سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري, better known as Al-Akẖḍari (Arabic: الأخضري), born in 1512 in Biskra in present-day Algeria and died in 1575 in Biskra in present-day Algeria, was an Arab poet, logician, astronomer and maliki jurist.
He was the author of the highly popular didactic poem Al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq ("The Ornamented Ladder into the Science of Logic"). The 144-line poem, a versification of Al-Abhari's Kitab al-Isaghuji, outlines the principles of Islamic logic and explains how logic could be used to support the Islamic creed ('aqidah) and jurisprudence (fiqh). The work is studied across the Muslim world as a primer on logic[1] and is often read in conjunction with al-Akhdari's own prose commentary.
He is also known to have written another work, "al-Jawhar ul-Maknun" or "
Al-Jawahir al-Maknuna fi'l-ma'ni wa'l-bayan wa'l-badi'".
Origin
[edit]Sheikh Sayyidi'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muhammad al-Akẖḍarī was born in present-day Algeria, plus an account in an Sherifian Arab family (noble descendant) of the Arab tribe Banu al-Akhdari (Arabic: بنو الأخضري) the region of Ibb in Yemen present in Algeria since the 680s, best known in Algeria and Libya as Kābilāt Al-Akḥdārīyyāh (Arabic: قبيلة الأخضرية).
Works
[edit]Al-Akhdari wrote many works on several sciences including intellectual, Shari'a, fiqh, linguistics, mathematics, and astronomy.
- Al-Sullam al-munawraq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq ("The Ornamented Ladder into the Science of Logic") (السلم المُنَوْرَقِ في علم المنطق): A 144-line poem on Islamic logic. This work was translated by the French orientalist Lucien in 1921 CE and he considered it one of the greatest international books.
- «مختصر الأخضري في العبادات» على مذهب الإمام مالك
- «نظم الجوهر المكنون في ثلاثة فنون: في علم البلاغة والبيان والبديع»
- «حلية اللب المصون على الجواهر المكنون»
- «منظومة الدرة البيضاء في الفرائض والحساب»
- «منظومة الدرة البيضاء في أحسن الفنون والأشياء»
- «نظم السلم المرونق في المنطق»
- «شرح السلم المرونق المذكور»
- «نظم السراج في علم الفلك»
- «نظم منثور ابن آجروم الدرر البهية على نظم الاجرومية»
- «نظم أزهر المطالب في هيئة الأفلاك والكواكب في علم الاسطرلاب»
- «قصيدة مدح النبي خالد بن سنان»
- «شعر القدسية واللامية في التصوف»
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Inheritors Ijaza" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
