Aḥmad Amīn (1886-1954) was an Egyptian scholar, man of letters, and major force in the twentieth-century Egyptian movement for educational and cultural reform. He was born in Cairo on 2 Muḥar-ram 1304/1 October 1886. In addition to four years of study at al-Azhar, he was a member of the first graduating class of the school of judges, Madrasat al-Qaḍāʾ al-Sharʿī , established in 1907 in accordance with the project initiated by Muḥammad ʿAbduh (d. 1905) to reform and codify Islamic jurisprudence. First a teacher