Kitab Al-Muzhir Fi ‘Ulum Al-Lughah Wa-Anwa’iha. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

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8vo, Volume I: 375 pp., / Volume II: 344 pp., Arabic text, modern hard back, Cairo, 1325 A.H / 1907 Al-Suyuti, in full Jalal al-Din Abu al-Fadl 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Suyuti , was an Egyptian author and teacher, born in 1445 in Cairo, Egypt, where he also died in 1505. His works deal with a wide variety of subjects, the Islamic religious sciences predominating. The son of a judge, al-Suyuti was tutored by a Sufi (Muslim mystic) friend of his father. He was precocious and became a teacher when still young, in 1462. A controversial figure, he was deeply embroiled in the political conflicts and theological disputes of his time, and at one point he proclaimed himself the mujaddid (renewer") of the Islamic faith. In 1486 he was appointed head of the Sufi Lodge (Khanaqah) attached to the mosque of Baybars in Cairo and was living in virtual retirement. When in 1501 he tried to reduce the stipends of Sufi scholars at the mosque