Al-Suyuti

Al-Suyuti

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (Arabic: جلال الدين السيوطي, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; c. 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Suyuti has received more than 501,737 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Suyuti is the 586th most popular religious figure (down from 565th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 109th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Egyptian Religious Figure.

Al-suyuti is most famous for his work in the fields of Quranic studies and Islamic history. He wrote a commentary on the Quran, "al-Durr al-manthur," and was the first to compile a list of the 114 surahs of the Quran. He also wrote a dictionary of Quranic terms, "al-Jawahir al-lughawiyyah."