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ABU ZAIARIYYA IBN SHARAF UN-NAWAWI (I233-1278), Arabian writer, was born at Nawa near Damascus . In the latter city he studied from his eighteenth year, and there, after making the pilgrimage in 1253, he settled as a private scholar until 1267, when he succeeded Abu Shama as professor of tradition at the Ashrafiyya school . He died at Nawa from overwork . His manual of Moslem law according to the Shafi'ite school has been edited with French translation by van den Bergh, 2 vols., Batavia (1882-1884), and published at Cairo (1888) . The Tandhib ul-Asma'i has been edited as the Biographical Dictionary of Illustrious Men chiefly at the Beginning of Islam by F . Wiistenfeld (Gottingen, 1842-1847) . The Tagrib wa Taisir, an introduction to the study of tradition, was published at Cairo, 189o, with Suyuti's commentary . It has been in part translated into French by M . Marcais in the Journal asiatique, series ix., vols . 16-i8 (1900-19o1) . Nawawi's collection of the forty (actually forty-two) chief traditions has been frequently published with commentaries in Cairo . For other works see C .

Brockelmann's Gesch. der arabischen Litteratur, vol. i . (

Weimar, 1898), PP . 395-397 . (G . W .