JALAL AL-DIN AL-SUYUTI AND HIS CULTURAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

The culture of the Arabs and their intellectual interests had a great impact on guiding the intellectual movement of the Islamic world. One of the most prominent cultural and intellectual trends of the Islamic world is their interest in human aspects, that is, everything related to humans and their actions. History is one of the most important branches of the human knowledge, or science that shows humanity as it is. In history, it is a pleasure to listen to it, a lesson when thinking, and a comprehensiveness in the field. Therefore, history was one of the first sciences that they were interested in, so they studied it, narrated its news, and discussed it. Researchers in history and its sciences used to rely on the oldest Arab sources from the age of the event to be the sources of their information. Hence, this study examines Jalal al-Din Al-Suyuti and his cultural leadership within the nineteenth century to help those who wanted to research his history.