Ahmed al-Ghubrini was a scholar, chronicler, biographer and qadi born in Béjaïa in 1264 and originally from Djurdjura.شجرة النور الزكية في طبقات المالكية - محمد مخلوف ( نسخة واضحة ومنسقة )History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 2 Carl Brockelmann BRILL,Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering Jamal J. Elias, Bilal Orfali BRILL,Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam Alexander D. Knysh SUNY Press
He was born in the year 1264 in Béjaïa and was the son of Aba Al-Qasim Ahmed Al-Ghubrini, a scholar who took over the fatwa in Tunisia.Al-Ghubrini He attended seminars in the great mosque of Béjaïa and the Zitouna mosque. He was able to gain knowledge from many scholars including Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haq al-Ansari al-Baja'i, Abu al-Faris Abd al-Aziz Ibn Makhlouf, Abu Abdullah al-Tamimi al-Qalai, Muhammad al-Umayyi, Abu Abdullah al-Kinani al-Shatibi and Abu al-Hasan al-Azdi. His book 'Unwan al-diraya fi man 'urifa min al-'ulama'fi l-mi'a al-sabi'afi Bijaya [Ornament of knowledge on those known scholars of Bejaïa in the seventh century AH] contains the biographies of 149 scholars.
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