# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shams-al-din-al-sakhawi
# Generated: 2026-08-16T03:45:35.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shams-al-din-al-sakhawi"
name: "Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi"
slug: "shams-al-din-al-sakhawi"
description: "Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī was a Shafi‘i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cairo. Al-Sakhawi refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was a prolific writer that excelled in the knowledge of hadith, tafsir, literature, and history. His work was also anthropological. For example, in Egypt he recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Bilad al-Sham married more than once, with many marrying three or more times. According to al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century Cairo ended in divorce. His proficiency in hadith has its influences trace back heavily on his Shaykh al-Hafiz, ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani. He died in Medina."
tagline: "15th-century Egyptian scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1427"
deathDate: "1497-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             3.827893175074184
  historical:           10.58963733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Al-Sakhawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شمس الدين السخاوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "السخاوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9E%C9%99ms%C9%99ddin_%C9%99s-S%C9%99xavi"
    title: "Şəmsəddin əs-Səxavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আল-সাখাভী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schams_ad-D%C4%ABn_as-Sach%C4%81w%C4%AB"
    title: "Schams ad-Dīn as-Sachāwī"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Al-Sakhawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "شمس‌الدین سخاوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80"
    title: "अल-सखावी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syamsuddin_as-Sakhawi"
    title: "Syamsuddin as-Sakhawi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "شمس الدین سخاوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81-%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8"
    title: "Ас-Сахави"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "شمس الدین سخاوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump