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14th-century Arabic-language writers

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Ibn Khaldun
Arab historiographer and historian
Ibn Kathir
Syrian Islamic historian, exegete and scholar (c.1300–1373)
Abulfeda
Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.
Al-Maqrizi
Al-Maqrīzī (, full name '''Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-'Abbās Aḥmad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Maqrīzī''', ; 1364–1442) was a medieval Egyptian historian and biographer during the Mamluk era, known for his interest in the Fatimid era, and the earlier periods of Egyptian history. He is recognized as the most influential historian of premodern Egypt.
Ibn Idhari
Late 13th/early 14th century Moroccan writer and historian
Al-Ibshīhī
Al-Ibshīhī () (1388–1448) was an Egyptian writer born in the small town in the Governorate of Gharbeya, in the Nile Delta.
Al-Jaldaki
Ali bin Mahammad Aydamir or ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jildakī (Egyptian Arabic: عز الدين الجلدكي; Coptic: Ⲉⲍ ⲉⲗⲇⲓⲛ ⲉⲗϫⲗⲇⲕⲓ), also written al-Jaldakī (d. 1342 CE / 743 AH) was an Egyptian alchemist from the 14th century Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. A scientist and author who specialized in chemistry and lived in the eighth century AH. He copied entire paragraphs from the works of Jabir bin Hayyan, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Ibn Arfa` Ras, Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, and others, thus serving the history of chemistry in Islam, as he recorded in his works much of what had disappeared from the books of his predecessors. Haji
Ibn Hisham Al-Ansari
Egyptian Arabic grammarian and scholar
Ibn al-Jayyab
Moorish writer
Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd S̲h̲ams al-dīn Abū ʿAbda al-Anṣārī
Arab encyclopedist and physician
Al-Khāzin al-Baghdādī
14th century Sunni exegete and hadith scholar
Ibn ʿAqīl
Arab grammarian
Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini
Iraqi linguist
Ibn Habib al-Halabi
Syrian faqih, writer and poet
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Yahya Watwat
Yahya Ibn Khaldun
Arab historian