b. 1293/1876, d. 1341/1923.
Sources
A ʿlām, vi, 303; Jacob (1923), 182-85 and passim; Rihani (1930), 143-69 (includes a brief discussion of Muḥammad al-Idrīsī’s writings); Reissner (1981), 164-92; Abāẓa (1979), 193-214 and 466-74; Abū Dāhish (1982), 237 and passim; O’Fahey (1990), 122-24; Ibrāhīm, thesis (1990), 292-99; Hofheinz (forthcoming).
Biography
Great-grandson of Ibn Idrīs; he was born in Ṣabyā of an Indian mother. He studied first with his father and various prominent ʿAsīrī scholars before m…