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Ibn Taghribirdi

1410 - 1470

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Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi (Arabic: جمال الدين يوسف بن الأمير سيف الدين تغري بردي), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Taghribirdi has received more than 45,475 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ibn Taghribirdi is the 2,616th most popular writer (up from 2,781st in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 355th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 18

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 2,616 out of 5,755. Before him are Armin T. Wegner, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Robert Penn Warren, Sylvain Maréchal, Zhou Daguan, and Sophron. After him are Stefan Heym, Mikhail Artsybashev, Fritz Mauthner, Bekir Çoban-zade, Banana Yoshimoto, and Charlie Kaufman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1410, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 8. Before him are Petrus Christus, Lekë Dukagjini, Stefan Lochner, Domenico Veneziano, Giorgio da Sebenico, and Agnes Bernauer. After him is William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent. Among people deceased in 1470, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 8. Before him are Charles VIII of Sweden, Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, John II, Duke of Lorraine, Barthélemy d'Eyck, Gaston, Prince of Viana, and Demetrios Palaiologos. After him is Rum Mehmed Pasha.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 347 out of 582. Before him are Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942), Sameera Moussa (1917), Moshé Mizrahi (1931), Albert Cossery (1913), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), and Nebetah (-1350). After him are Sayed Darwish (1892), Cleomenes of Naucratis (-400), Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (1096), Beketaten (-1400), Al-Musta'li (1076), and Hazem El Beblawi (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 30. Before him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), André Aciman (1951), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Albert Cossery (1913), and Apollonius Dyscolus (200). After him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Bat Ye'or (1933), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), C. S. Forester (1899), and Salama Moussa (1887).

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