# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-nuwayri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:00:18.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-nuwayri"
name: "Al-Nuwayri"
slug: "al-nuwayri"
description: "Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333."
tagline: "Historian, encyclopedist and calligrapher (1279–1333)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1278"
deathDate: "1333-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.49147066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "شهاب الدين النويري"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "An-Nuwairi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump