Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-Bīsīkrī
Arabic
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:سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري, better known as Kabīlāt Al-Akẖḍariyah ( ar, قبيلة الأخضرية), born in 1512 in
Biskra
Biskra ( ar, بسكرة ; ; Latin Vescera) is the capital city of Biskra Province, Algeria. In 2007, its population was recorded as 307,987. Biskra is located in northeastern Algeria, about 248 miles (400 km) from Algiers, 71 miles (115&nbs ...
,
Algeria
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and died in 1575 in Biskra, Algeria, was an
Algerian
Algerian may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Algeria
* Algerian people
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Algeria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, econo ...
poet
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,
logician,
astronomer
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and
maliki
The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...
jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
.
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
Aristotelian logic
In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic, syllogistic logic or Aristotelian logic, is a loose name for an approach to formal logic that began with Aristotle and was developed further in ancient history mostly by his followers, t ...
and explains how logic could be used to support the Islamic creed (
'aqidah
''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...
) and jurisprudence (
fiqh
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The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
). The work is studied across the Muslim world as a primer on logic
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
Sheikh Sayyidi'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muhammad al-Akẖḍarī was born in
Algeria
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, plus an account in an
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
Algeria
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n family
Sherifian (noble descendant) of the
Arab tribe
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Banu al-Akhdari (Arabic: بنو الأخضري) the region of
Ibb in
Yemen present in
Algeria
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since the 680s, best known in
Algeria
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and
Libya as Kābilāt Al-Akḥdārīyyāh (Arabic: قبيلة الأخضرية).
See also
*
List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140326072939/http://al-akhdari.com/
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1514 births
1546 deaths
Asharis
Maliki fiqh scholars
Algerian Maliki scholars
Algerian male poets
Logicians
16th-century jurists