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The eminent scholar and jurist Ahmad al-Hafzi ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Ajili (His life and works)

الأستاذ الدكتور/ محمد بن منصور الحاوي قسم التاريخ - كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية - جامعة الملك خالد

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Abstract

This research deals with a detailed study of one of the distinguished Asiri scientific and social figures, belonging to a long-standing family in science and social status at the level of the Arabian Peninsula in general, and its south in particular, namely the family of Al-Bakri Al-Ajili, especially the most prominent of its scholars and scientists, who had a great reputation in science, education, reform, and calling to Allah Almighty in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries Hijri. In his community, he had the upper hand in writing, reading, reforming among the people, spreading science, opening educational circles, and dictating lessons to those who attend the science circles in their mosque in their town “Rujal”, or in their other village “Athalif” in the Rijal Almaa region; where these two schools before the arrival of the first Saudi state became centers of knowledge that attracted a number of students from Asir, from outside it, and even from some countries outside the Arabian Peninsula, whether from Indian pilgrims, Jabart, and others.