Al-Sheikh Al-Allama Abu Muhammad Yusuf ibn Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Husseini al-Asir al-Saydaoui al-Azhari al-Shafi'i was a faqih, scholar of Islamic inheritance law, writer, poet, linguist, and journalist during the Arab Nahda of the late Ottoman period. He was born in the city of Sidon, which was part of the Sidon Eyalet, in 1232 AH (1817 CE), according to the historian Al-Zirikli, although Kahhala and Jurji Zaydan have placed his birth year at 1230 AH (1815 CE).
Al-Sheikh Al-Allama Abu Muhammad Yusuf ibn Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Husseini al-Asir al-Saydaoui al-Azhari al-Shafi'i was a faqih, scholar of Islamic inheritance law, writer, poet, linguist, and journalist during the Arab Nahda of the late Ottoman period. He was born in the city of Sidon, which was part of the Sidon Eyalet, in 1232 AH (1817 CE), according to the historian Al-Zirikli, although Kahhala and Jurji Zaydan have placed his birth year at 1230 AH (1815 CE).
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