Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri

Biography:

Muhammad bin Umar bin Abd al-Rahman bin Abd Allah al-Aqil better known as Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri is a Saudi Arabian polymath. He has at various times been referred to as a theologian jurist historian ethnographer geographer poet critic and author. As a member of Saudi Arabia's Golden Generation he knew of life both during the poverty of the pre-oil boom era and the prosperity of the 1950s onward.