al-Azharī, Khālid b. ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
Leiden
Brill
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Zayn al-Dīn Khālid b. ʿAbdallāh b. Abī Bakr al-Jirjī (or al-Jirjāwī) al-Waqqād al-Azharī was a prolific ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian scholar and the author of widely used textbooks and commentaries, especially in the field of grammar. He was born in Jirjā (Upper Egypt) around 838/1434-5. While he was still an infant, his parents brought him with them to Cairo. Later he worked as a lamplighter (waqqād) in a mosque, where he began to develop an interest in learning and scholarship. He continued his