a renowned linguist and scholar of Arabic grammar and usul-al-fiqh (law). He wrote treatises on law (Al Kitab Zawahir al-Fikri), poems in praise of the prophet Mohammed (Zahr al-hada'ih and Al-Zahr al-nadi fi-l-khuluk al-muhammadi). and an urdjuza (poem in a specific metre) about the shorfa (descendants of the prophet), Durrat al-tidjan.
