Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Al-Akhdari سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الأخضري | |
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| Born | 1515 |
| Died | 1575 |
| Home town | Biskra (Algeria) |
| Other names | Ibn Al-Akhdari |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | IslamSunni |
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| Lineage |  Dynasty of Al-Akhdari |
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Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-BīsīkrīArabic :سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري, better known asAl-Akẖḍari (Arabic:الأخضري), born in 1512 inBiskra in present-dayAlgeria and died in 1575 in Biskra in present-day Algeria, was anArabpoet,logician,astronomer andmalikijurist.
He was the author of the highly popular didactic poemAl-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq ("The Ornamented Ladder into the Science of Logic"). The 144-line poem, a versification ofAl-Abhari'sKitab al-Isaghuji, outlines the principles ofIslamic logic and explains how logic could be used to support the Islamic creed ('aqidah) and jurisprudence (fiqh). The work is studied across the Muslim world as a primer on logic[1] 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'".
Sheikh Sayyidi'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muhammad al-Akẖḍarī was born in present-dayAlgeria, plus an account in anSherifianArab family (noble descendant) of the Arab tribeBanu al-Akhdari (Arabic:بنو الأخضري) the region ofIbb inYemen present in Algeria since the 680s, best known in Algeria andLibya asKābilāt Al-Akḥdārīyyāh (Arabic:قبيلة الأخضرية).
Al-Akhdari wrote many works on several sciences including intellectual, Shari'a, fiqh, linguistics, mathematics, and astronomy.
