Muḥammad ibn al-QÃÂsim al-Nuwayrë al-IskandarÃÂnë al-MÃÂlikë (fl. 1365âÂÂ1373) was a Muslim historian and native of Alexandria in the tradition of secular local historiography. He wrote a three-volume history ostensibly of the Cypriot-led crusade that sacked his city in October 1365, to which he was an eyewitness. In fact, as his contemporary Ibn Ḥajar al-ÿAsḳalÃÂnë noted, the KitÃÂb al-IlmÃÂm fëmàjarat bihi þl-aḥkÃÂm al-maḳá¸Âiyya fë wÃÂḳiÿat al-Iskandariyya mostly meanders through the earlier history of the city, leaving little room for the crusade with which he begins. It includes the story of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, and even many events unrelated to the city. It was written between AH 767 (AD 1365âÂÂ66) and 775 (1373âÂÂ74). The dates of al-Nuwayrë's birth and death are unknown. There is a manuscript copy of al-MasÃ¿à «dë's Murà «j in al-Nuwayrë's handwriting.
The KitÃÂb al-IlmÃÂm was edited in six volumes by Aziz Atiya between 1968 and 1973. Atiya regards al-Nuwayrë as the most important historian for the crusade of 1365 from the Egyptian perspective.