Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqīṭī [d. 1393/1973]

محمد الأمين الشنقيطي Born 1325/1927 in Eastern Mauritania in the land of Shinqīṭ (Chinguetti District) to a family of scholarship and learning, his father died when he was a child and he began his Islamic instruction from his maternal uncles and aunts before moving on to the senior scholars of his region. He arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1367/1947 for Hajj and wound up staying there teaching tafsīr in Madīnah until 1371, then moving to teach in Riyadh until 1381 when Madīnah University opened, after which he became a distinguished member of their faculty. He left many written works including an

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• Written by Dr Abu Zayd at January 18, 2011
• 14th Century, Hijaz (Saudi Arabia), Khalaf (Later Generations), Mālikī Scholars, Mauritania, North Africa, Scholars of Quran (Tafsir)