Suyūṭī wrote over 500 works that primarily focus on topics and issues in the Islamic religious and the Arabic linguistic disciplines. His al-Hay’a al-saniyya fī al-hay’a al-sunniyya is a religiously-oriented account of “cosmology,” or celestial and terrestrial entities from the perspective of the ḥadīth corpus. In his Autobiography, Suyūṭī is quite explicit regarding his views on science: “[I do not occupy myself with] logic and the philosophical disciplines (ˁulūm al-falsafa) because they are forbidden, and even if they were permissible, I would not prefer them to the religious disciplines.” [A. Dhanani]