Ibn Juzayy

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Juzayy al-Kalbī al-Gharnāṭī, better known as Ibn Juzayy was an Andalusian Sunni Muslim scholar of Arab origin. He was a distinguished Maliki jurist, legal theoretician, Quran commentator, Quran reciter, hadith scholar, historian, scholar in Arabic, poet, preacher, orator, and a literary figure. He gained renown at a young age as a leading scholar of his time in al-Andalus, celebrated for both his classical writings and his martyrdom in the jihad against the Spanish Christian crusade. He was killed in the Battle of Tarifa in 1340.