![]() ![]() In 1486, Sultan Qaitbay appointed him shaykh at the Khanqah of Baybars II, a Sufi lodge. He started teaching Shafi'i jurisprudence at the age of 18, at the same mosque as his father did. ![]() Īl-Suyuti's studies included: Shafi'i and Hanafi jurisprudence ( fiqh), traditions ( hadith), exegesis ( tafsir), theology, history, rhetoric, philosophy, philology, arithmetic, timekeeping ( miqat) and medicine. His father taught Shafi'i law at the Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu in Cairo, but died when al-Suyuti was 5 or 6 years old. His family moved to Asyut in Mamluk Egypt, hence the nisba "Al-Suyuti". According to al-Suyuti his ancestors came from al-Khudayriyya in Baghdad. He hailed from a Persian family on his paternal side. ![]() Al-Suyuti was born on 3 October 1445 AD (1 Rajab 849 AH) in Cairo, Egypt.
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