Name

Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī

Original name

Zayn al-Dīn Abū Yaḥyà Zakariyyāʼ al-Anṣārī, زين الدين أبو يحيى زكرياء الأنصاري

Main activity

Mufassir

Secondary activity

šāfiʻī qāḍī, muftī, ṣūfī

Title

šayḫ al-Islām

Name variations

Zakariya al-Ansari"

Education place

Cairo

Education institution

al-Azhar

Activity place

Cairo

Activity institution

Madrasa of al-Šāfiʻī, Madrasa Ǧāmaliyya

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Sunayka

Date of birth

1420

Place of death

Cairo

Date of death

1520

Bibliographical references

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-ansari-zakariyya-COM_23956?s.num=401&s.rows=20&s.start=400

Descriptive card

Egyptian scholar and ṣūfī. He wrote on several subjects (fiqh, tafsīr, ḥadīṯ, taṣawwūf...) including taǧwīd (the recitation of Qur'ān) commenting on a work by al-Ǧazarī. Copies of these two works are found in Western libraries, as they have been studied by European Orientalists, such as Giovanni Battista Raimondi, scientific director of the Typographia Medicea (Rome 1584), as means to learn and teach Arabic.

Entry author

Sara Fani