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Ibn al-Qifti

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13th century Egyptian historian and biographer

WritersLived 1172 to 1248 · aged 76
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Shaybānī, called al-Qifṭī, was an Egyptian Arab historian, biographer, encyclopedist and administrator under the Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo.

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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Shaybānī, called al-Qifṭī, was an Egyptian Arab historian, biographer, encyclopedist and administrator under the Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo. His biographical dictionary Kitāb Ikhbār al-'Ulamā' bi Akhbār al-Ḥukamā is an important source of Islamic biography. Much of his vast literary output is lost, including his histories of the Seljuks, Buyids and the Maghreb, and biographical dictionaries of philosophers and philologists.

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Lived 1172 to 1248 · aged 76
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