Izz al-Din ibn Shaddad al-Halabi (1217âÂÂ1285) () was an Arab scholar and official for the Ayyubids from Aleppo.
'Izz al-Din Muhammad b. 'Ali ibn Shaddad al-Halabi, often quoted simply as Ibn Shaddad, is best known for his Al-a'laq al-khatira fi dhikr umara' al-Sham wa'l-Jazira, a historical geography of Syria (al-Sham) and Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira), which he wrote in exile in Egypt after the Mongols overran Syria. This work has been translated into French and published by as Description de la Syrie du Nord in Damascus in 1984.
He also wrote Ta'rikh al-Malik al-zahir, a biography of Baybars I, the Mamluk ruler of Egypt.