Al-Akhdari


Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-Bīsīkrī Arabic :سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري, better known as Al-Akẖḍari, born in 1512 in Biskra in present-day Algeria and died in 1575 in Biskra in present-day Algeria, was an Arab poet, logician, astronomer and maliki jurist.
He was the author of the highly popular didactic poem Al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq. The 144-line poem, a versification of Al-Abhari's Kitab al-Isaghuji, outlines the principles of Islamic logic and explains how logic could be used to support the Islamic creed and jurisprudence. 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 present-day Algeria, plus an account in an Sherifian Arab family of the Arab tribe Banu al-Akhdari the region of Ibb in Yemen present in Algeria since the 680s, best known in Algeria and Libya as Kābilāt Al-Akḥdārīyyāh.

Works

Al-Akhdari wrote many works on several sciences including intellectual, Shari'a, fiqh, linguistics, mathematics, and astronomy.
  • Al-Sullam al-munawraq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq : A 144-line poem on Islamic logic. This work was translated by the French orientalist Lucien in 1921 CE and he considered it one of the greatest international books.
  • «مختصر الأخضري في العبادات» على مذهب الإمام مالك
  • «نظم الجوهر المكنون في ثلاثة فنون: في علم البلاغة والبيان والبديع»
  • «حلية اللب المصون على الجواهر المكنون»
  • «منظومة الدرة البيضاء في الفرائض والحساب»
  • «منظومة الدرة البيضاء في أحسن الفنون والأشياء»
  • «نظم السلم المرونق في المنطق»
  • «شرح السلم المرونق المذكور»
  • «نظم السراج في علم الفلك»
  • «نظم منثور ابن آجروم الدرر البهية على نظم الاجرومية»
  • «نظم أزهر المطالب في هيئة الأفلاك والكواكب في علم الاسطرلاب»
  • «قصيدة مدح النبي خالد بن سنان»
  • «شعر القدسية واللامية في التصوف»