Al-Nuwayri
Al-Nuwayrī, also Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad, b. 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayri (born April 5, 1279 in Akhmim, present-day Egypt[1] – died 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب, Nihayat al-arab fī funūn al-adab), which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others.[2] He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333.[3]
References
- ↑ Al-Nuwayri, Shihab Al-Din (2016). The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. Penguin Books. pp. XV. ISBN 978-0-14-310748-4.
- ↑ Collison, Robert L. "The Arab World". Encyclopedia Brittannica. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ↑ Armstrong, Lyall. "The Making of a Sufi: al-Nuwayri's Account of the Origin of Genghis Khan" (PDF). Middle East Documentation Center. University of Chicago. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
Further reading
- The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800), "Al-Nuwayrī as a historian of the Mongols", p.23 and seq. Reuven Amitai. Online
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