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Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Hamdānī, commonly known simply as Ibn Hatim, was a 13th-century official and historian in Yemen, under the Rasulid dynasty.
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Ibn al-Abbār (ابن الأبار), he was Hāfiẓ Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn Abū Bakr al-Qudā'ī al-Balansī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي بكر بن عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن القضاعي البلنسي) (11 ...
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Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdadi, usually called al-Baghdadi (d. 1239 AD), was the compiler of an early Arabic cookbook of the Abbasid period, كتاب الطبيخ Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (The ...
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Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī (Arabic: ابن أبي أصيبعة; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia, was an Arab physician ...
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Ahmad al-Tifashi whose full name is Sharaf al-Din Abu al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yusuf al-Ḳaysi al-Tifachi (Arabic: أحمد بن يوسف القيسي التيفاشي), born in Tiffech, a village near Souk Ahras in Algeria (1184 ...
12th and 13th-century Islamic historian and geographer
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Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ash-Shaybani, better known as Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari (Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري) (1160-1233) was an Arab or Kurdish historian ...
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Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Walid al-Anf al-Qurashi (Arabic: الحسين بن علي بن محمد القرشي) was the eighth Tayyibi Isma'ili Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in Yemen, from 1230 to ...
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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf al-Makzūn al-Sinjārī, better known simply as al-Makzun al-Sinjari (Arabic: المكزون السنجاري, al-Makzūn al-Sinǧārī) (b. 1188 or 1193 — d. 1240), was a paramount m ...
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Abû ‘Uthman Sa’îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi (30 December 1204- 9 January 1282) (Arabic: ?) was the first Ra’îs of Manûrqa (modern Minorca) (1234-1287).
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Baha' al-din Zuhair (Arabic: بهاء الدين زهير)(1186–1258) was an Arabian poet born at or near Mecca, and became celebrated as the best writer of prose and verse and the best calligrapher of ...
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Abū Ishāq Shīhāb al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī (Arabic: أبو إسحاق شهاب الدين إبراهيم بن عبد الله الحموي) better known as Ibn Abīʾl-Dam (ابن أبي الدم) (29 July 1187 – 18 November 1244) ...
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Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾayyad ibn Ḥamuwayh al-Ḥamuwayī al-Juwaynī (1190/99 – 1252/60) was a Persian Ṣūfī shaykh from a prominent Ṣūfī family. He belonged to the order of the Kubrāwiyya. A prolific ...
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Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco ...
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Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Kardabūs al-Tawzarī (floruit 12th–13th century) was a Tunisian historian, perhaps of Andalusian origin. He was born in Tozeur and studied the ...
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Fakhr al-Dīn Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Rustam al-Khurāsānī al-Sāʿātī (died c. 1230), called Ibn al-Sāʿātī (son of the clockmaker), was a Syrian Muslim physician, government official and writer.
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Serapion the Younger was the author of a medicinal-botany book entitled The Book of Simple Medicaments. The book is dated to the 12th or 13th century. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from ...
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Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad al-Kātib al-Malakī al-Muẓaffarī Ibn al-Mughayzil (died 1302) was a Syrian historian of the Mamlūk period. His main work is Dhayl mufarrij al-kurūb fī akhbār ...