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  "ar": "شمس الدين أحمد بن أحمد السجاعي",
  "en": "Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Suja'i",
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  "ar": "عالم أزهري شافعي ⁦(ت. 1197هـ/1782م)⁩ من السجاعية قرب المحلة، له مؤلفات في اللغة والفقه والفلك، منها «هداية أولي البصائر والأبصار» {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}.",
  "en": "Azhari Shafi'i scholar (d. 1197/1782) from al-Suja'iyya near al-Mahalla, author of works on language, law and astronomy, including Hidayat uli al-basa'ir wal-absar {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}.",
  "ur": "ازہری شافعی عالم ⁦(متوفی 1197ھ/1782ء)⁩ جو محلہ کے قریب السجاعیہ کے تھے، زبان، فقہ اور فلکیات پر تصانیف کے مصنف، جن میں «ہدایۃ اولی البصائر والابصار» ہے {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}۔"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "شمس الدين أحمد بن أحمد بن محمد السجاعي الشافعي الأزهري، من بلدة السجاعية قرب المحلة بمصر، توفي سنة 1197هـ/1782م. {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34} كان أبوه من كبار المتصوفة، فقرأ عليه وعلى كبار شيوخ عصره، وتصدى للتدريس في حياة أبيه وبعد موته. {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مؤلفاته",
     "markdown": "له مؤلفات كثيرة في علوم اللغة والشريعة والفقه والفلك والحساب، منها «رسالة في أسماء منازل القمر» و«لقطة الجواهر في الخطوط والدوائر» و«هداية أولي البصائر والأبصار إلى معرفة أجزاء الليل والنهار». {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Suja'i al-Shafi'i al-Azhari, from the town of al-Suja'iyya near al-Mahalla in Egypt, died in 1197/1782. {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34} His father was a leading Sufi; he studied with him and with the great shaykhs of his time and taught both in his father's lifetime and after his death. {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
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     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "He wrote much on the language sciences, law, jurisprudence, astronomy and arithmetic, including a treatise on the names of the lunar mansions, *Luqtat al-jawahir fi al-khutut wal-dawa'ir*, and *Hidayat uli al-basa'ir wal-absar ila ma'rifat ajza' al-layl wal-nahar*. {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
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   "sections": [
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شمس الدین احمد بن احمد بن محمد السجاعی الشافعی الازہری، مصر میں محلہ کے قریب السجاعیہ قصبے کے تھے، 1197ھ/1782ء میں فوت ہوئے۔ {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34} ان کے والد بڑے صوفیہ میں سے تھے؛ انہوں نے ان سے اور اپنے دور کے بڑے مشائخ سے پڑھا، اور والد کی زندگی میں اور ان کے بعد تدریس کی۔ {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے لسانی علوم، شریعت، فقہ، فلکیات اور حساب پر بہت لکھا، جن میں منازلِ قمر کے ناموں پر رسالہ، «لقطۃ الجواہر فی الخطوط والدوائر» اور «ہدایۃ اولی البصائر والابصار الی معرفۃ اجزاء اللیل والنہار» ہیں۔ {cite:bibalex-azhar-astronomy-manuscripts-2006 p. 34}"
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