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Ibn Taghribirdi

Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi (), or Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrī-Birdī, or Ibn Taghribirdi (2 February 1411— 5 June 1470; 813–874 Hijri) was an Islamic historian born in the 15th century in Mamluk Egypt. He studied under al-Ayni and al-Maqrizi, two of the leading Cairene historians and scholars of the day.

Ibn Taghribirdi's most famous work is a multi-volume chronicle of Egypt and the Mamluk sultanate called al-Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira. His style is annalistic and gives precise dates for most events; this format makes it clear that Ibn Taghribirdi had privileged access to the sultans and their records. The name "Taghribirdi" is cognate to modern Turkish "Tanrıverdi" and means god-given in Turkic languages.

Works

  • Al-NujÅ«m al-Zāhirah fÄ« MulÅ«k Miá¹£r wa-al-Qāhirah (). Chronicle of period from the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 641 to 1468.
  • Edited by William Popper. 12. vols. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miá¹£rÄ«yah, 1929–56.
  • Miá¹£r al-JadÄ«dah, al-Qāhirah, al-Maktab al-Ê»ArabÄ« lil-Maʻārif (), 2017.
  • al-Manhal al-ṣāfÄ« wa-al-mustawfá baÊ»da al-wāfÄ« (); 13-vol. biographical dictionary with approx. 3000 entries celebrating the lives of sultans, princes (amirs), scholars and scientists (ulama), dignitaries, and entertainers, from the Bahri dynasty and later.
  • Ḥawādith al-duhÅ«r fÄ« madá al-ayyām wa-al-shuhÅ«r (); Egypt history 1250–1517 continues al-Maqrizi's Suluk li-ma'rifat duwwal al-muluk.
  • Al-Baḥr al-zākhir fÄ« tārÄ«kh al-ʻālam wa-akhbār al-awāʼil wa-al-awākhir (); universal history from creation of Adam (National Library of Paris, No.1551); Iraq MS purchased by Dar al-Kutub, Egypt.
  • Mawrid al-laṭāfah fÄ« man waliya al-salá¹­anah wa-al-khilāfah (); Biographies of the sultans and the caliphs.

Bibliography

  • History of Egypt 1382–1469; transl. from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥāsin Ibn TaghrÄ« BirdÄ« by William Popper, Berkeley 1954–63.

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