Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti

Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti was born around 1871 in the land of Chinguetti, where he was the pupil of several masters. He left in 1897 for the pilgrimage to Mecca, then travelled in the Muslim countries of Russia, in Turkey and in Syria, and settled in Cairo in 1902. There he worked with the bookseller and publisher Amin al-Khanji, wrote commentaries on the grammarians and on the suspended poems, edited ancient Arab poets and was counted among the best-known scholars of the city. He died in Cairo in 1913.

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• Essayالوسيط في تراجم أدباء شنقيطAhmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature