जमाल अल-दीन अल-क़िफ़्ती
Also known as al-Qifti, al-Qifṭī, Jamāl al-Dīn
'''Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn 'Abd al-Wahid al-Shaybānī (), called al-Qifṭī' (; – 1248), was an Egyptian Arab historian, biographer, encyclopedist and administrator under the Ayyubid rulers of Aleppo. His biographical dictionary Kitāb Ikhbār al-'Ulamā' bi Akhbār al-Ḥukamā'' (, tr. 'History of Learned Men') is an important source of Islamic biography. Much of his vast literary output is lost, including his histories of the Seljuks, Buyids and the Maghreb, and biographical dictionaries of philosophers and philologists.
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- Born
- ca. 1117
- Died
- ca. 1203
- Works
- 1
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- Ḥazz al-ghalāṣim fī ifḥām al-mukhāṣim
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