Afghani's most well-known work is al-Mujaz, a book attempting to simplify Arabic grammar for those unfamiliar with the language.
[2] Afghani was instrumental in the founding of Al-Arabi, a magazine showcasing the arts and culture of the Arab World.
[3] Afghani also spent ten years composing a biography of Aisha, the Muslim prophet Muhammad's second or third wife; the book was noted for Afghani's views on women in Islam, which Moroccan feminist writer Fatema Mernissi described as representative of all the Muslim world's most conservative views.
[4] Afghani was also learned in the field of Islamic studies, devoting much attention to the aspects of Muslim jurisprudence.
Afghani's 1960 published edition of Ibn Hazm's Mulakhkhas, an important work of Zahirite legal theory, is considered a key moment in Arab intellectual history and the modernist revival of Ibn Hazm's legal method.