Mowafaqia bint Ahmad bin Abdel Wahhab bin Atiq bin Werdan al-Masry () (1312 – 1228), commonly known as Mowafaqia al-Masria and nicknamed Set al-Agnas (), was an

Egyptian ''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...

judge and religious scholar, one of the greatest and most famous scholars of

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

in the

Mamluk Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...

era.Al-Zahabi,
العبر في خبر من عبر
'' part 4, p. 38 She studied at the hands of great scholars such as Al-Hasan bin Dinar, Abdul Aziz bin Al-Naqar, Al-Ilm bin Al-Sabouni, and others, and she heard some parts of the hadith and narrating them herself. Among her students and those who took knowledge from her were the great scholar Fath al-Din bin Sayyid al-Nas, the scholar al-Subki, the scholar al-Wani, the scholar Ibn al-Fakhr, and others. She reached a very high level of knowledge and devoted her life to science and knowledge. Because of the abundance of her knowledge, she was the subject of conversation throughout the entire Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate and its environs during the era of the

Qalawunid dynasty The Bahri Mamluks (), sometimes referred to as the Bahri dynasty, were the rulers of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1250 to 1382, following the Ayyubid dynasty. The members of the Mamluk ruling class were purchased as slaves ( mamluks) and ma ...

, so she was called the Lady of the Wise. She was a judge who ruled between people, and she was a scholar of history and religious sciences, especially the science of hadith.

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