Al-Suhayli

The Mausoleum of al-Suhayli in Marrakesh

Abu al-Qasim (and Abu Zayd) Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Suhayli (Arabic: أبو القاسم السُّهَيْلي) (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He wrote a commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham.

Works

• al-Rawḍ al-unuf fī šarḥ al-sīra al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišām. wa-maʿahu al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya (7 volumes), 1967
• al-Taʿrīf wa-al-iʿlām li-mā ubhima min al-Qurʾān min al-asmāʾ wa-al-aʿlām, Bayrut, 1987
• Translation in German: Die Kommentare des Suhailī und des Abū Ḍarr zu den Uḥud-Gedichten in der Sīra des Ibn Hišam, Schaade, Arthur 1908

See also

• Marrakesh
• List of Islamic scholars

References

• As-Suhayli, A. (1997). ar-Raud al-Unuf Fi at-Tafsir as-Sirah.
• Arias, J. P. (1996). "De los nombres propios, según al-Suhayli (m. 518/1185-6)" [About proper names, according to al-Suhayli (m. 518/1185-6)]. Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos (in Spanish). 45: 25–34. ISSN 0544-408X.
• Arias, J. P. (1995). "Ideas sobre la sinonimia en dos sabios andalusies del siglo VI/XII: al-Suhayli y al-Sarisi" [Reflections about synonymy through the work by two Andalusian scholars in 6/12th centuries: al-Suhaylī and al-Šarīšī]. Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos (in Spanish). 44: 7–24. ISSN 0544-408X.
• Baalbaki, R (1999). Expanding the 'amil ma'nawi: Suhayli's innovative approach to the theory of regimen.
• de Castries, H. (1997). Les sept saints de Marrakech (in French).
• Kılıçlı, Mustafa (1990). Abu'l-Qâsim Abdurrahmân as-Suhayli: His Life & Works. Erzurum.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Kasher, A. (2016). "Iconicity in Arabic Grammatical Tradition: al-Suhaylī on the Correspondence between Form and Meaning". Romano-Arabica. 16: 201–224.