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Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Azharī al-Kurdufānī
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b. 1821, d. October 1882.

Sources

Shuqayr (1903), i, 141-42 and iii, 162 (168 and 697); ʿAbd al-Raḥīm (1932), 194-97; al-Muftī (1378/1959), i, 101-3; ʿAbidīn (1967), 94-95 and 117; Hill (1967), 34 and 397; Ibrāhīm (1968), passim; Holt (1970), 21 and 107-9; idem (1973), 128; al-Milayk (1975), 301-5; Shaked (1978), 19-20 and passim; Ibrahim, thesis (1980), 89-92, and Abū Salīm (1989), 59-62.

Biography

The second son of Ismāʿīl al-Walī and brother of Muḥammad al-Makkī; he was born at al-Ubayyiḍ in Kordofan. He studied at al-…

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“Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Azharī al-Kurdufānī”, in: Arabic Literature of Africa Online, General Editor John O. Hunwick, R.S. O’Fahey. Consulted online on 09 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405-4453_alao_COM_ALA_10009_3_2>
First published online: 2016



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