Mowafaqia al-Masria

Mowafaqia bint Ahmad bin Abdel Wahhab bin Atiq bin Werdan al-Masry (Egyptian Arabic: موفقية بنت احمد بن عبد الوهاب بن عتيق بن وردان المصرى) (1312 – 1228), commonly known as Mowafaqia al-Masria and nicknamed Set al-Agnas (Arabic: ست الاجناس, lit. 'the Lady of the Wise'), was an Egyptian judge and religious scholar, one of the greatest and most famous scholars of hadith in the Mamluk era.

Mowafaqia bint Ahmad bin Abdel Wahhab bin Atiq bin Werdan al-Masry
Personal life
Born	1228, Cairo, Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate.
Died	1312, Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate.
Era	Middle Ages
Main interest(s)	Hadith
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Profession	Judge, religious scholar

She studied at the hands of great scholars such as Al-Hasan bin Dinar, Abdul Aziz bin Al-Naqar, Al-Ilm bin Al-Sabouni, and others, and she heard some parts of the hadith and narrating them herself. Among her students and those who took knowledge from her were the great scholar Fath al-Din bin Sayyid al-Nas, the scholar al-Subki, the scholar al-Wani, the scholar Ibn al-Fakhr, and others. She reached a very high level of knowledge and devoted her life to science and knowledge. Because of the abundance of her knowledge, she was the subject of conversation throughout the entire Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate and its environs during the era of the Qalawunid dynasty, so she was called the Lady of the Wise. She was a judge who ruled between people, and she was a scholar of history and religious sciences, especially the science of hadith.