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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 49,568 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ibn Taghribirdi is the 2,075th most popular writer (up from 2,608th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Egypt (up from 346th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Notable Works

Egypt and Syria under the Circassian sultans, 1382-1468 A.D
Politics and government, Historical geography, History
1955
Mawrid al-latafah fi man waliya al-saltanah wa-al-khilafah
1997
History of Egypt (845-854 A.H., A.D. 1441-1450) An extract from Abu'l-Mahasin ibn Taghri Birdi's chronicle, entitled Hawadith ad-duhur fi mada'l-'ayyam wash-shuhur
History
1967
Al- Nujum al-zahirah
History
1963
Mawrid al-latafah al-Jamal al-Din ibn Taghri Bridi =
1792

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 2,075 out of 7,302. Before him are Rahel Varnhagen, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Ludwig Uhland, Anton Praetorius, Afanasy Fet, and Isaac Titsingh. After him are Yasmina Reza, Barbara von Krüdener, Sigismund von Herberstein, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, George MacDonald, and Vasily Aksyonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1410, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Ockeghem, Petrus Christus, Lekë Dukagjini, Domenico Veneziano, Stefan Lochner, and Giorgio da Sebenico. After him are Agnes Bernauer, Pedro Tafur, and William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent. Among people deceased in 1470, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 7. Before him are Charles VIII of Sweden, Jacopo Bellini, Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, Barthélemy d'Eyck, John II, Duke of Lorraine, and Demetrios Palaiologos. After him are Gaston, Prince of Viana, and Rum Mehmed Pasha.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 321 out of 642. Before him are Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938), Barsanuphius (401), Takelot III (-800), Anatolius of Constantinople (301), Leila Mourad (1918), and Carpocrates (100). After him are Said Halim Pasha (1865), Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (832), Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (1096), Thutmose (-1500), Apollos (100), and Syrianus (400).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Ibn Taghribirdi ranks 24. Before him are Ibn al-Farid (1181), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Herodas (-300), Edmond Jabès (1912), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), and Anastasius Sinaita (630). After him are Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Albert Cossery (1913), Sotion (-250), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), and Dionysius Periegetes (100).

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