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Ibn Arabshah

Arab writer and traveller (1389–1450 CE)

Summary

Arab writer and traveller (1389–1450 CE)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Ibn Arabshah
name	Abu Muhammad Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim
أبو محمد شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن إبراهيم
image	File:Autograph of Ahmad ibn Arabshah.png
image_size	250px
caption	The autograph of Ahmad ibn Arabshah, Aja'ib al-Maqdur fi Akhbar Taymur, dated 839, Adilnor Collection
pseudonym	Ibn Arabshah
birth_date	1389
birth_place	Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate
death_date	1450
death_place	Egypt, Mamluk Sultanate
resting_place	Egypt
occupation	Arab writer, traveller and Historian
language	Arabic
nationality	Sham
period	9th Islamic century

أبو محمد شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن إبراهيم Abu Muhammad Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim also known as Muhammad ibn Arabshah (; 1389–1450), was an Arab writer and traveller who lived under the reign of Timur (1370–1405).

Arabshah was born and grew up in Damascus. Later when Timur invaded Syria, he moved to Samarkand and later to Transoxiana. Arabshah later moved to Edirne and worked in the court of Sultan Mehmed I translating Arabic books to Turkish and Persian. He later returned to Damascus after having been absent from the city for 23 years. In his critical biography of Timur, Aja'ib al-Maqdur, written in Arabic, Arabshah highlighted Timur's illiteracy of Arabic and his preference for Persian literature. Later he moved to Egypt and died there.

The famous Muslim scholar, Abd al-Wahhab ibn Arabshah, was his son.

His works

Aja'ib al-Maqdur fi Nawa'ib al-Taymur (The Wonders of Destiny of the Ravages of Timur), which he finished in Damascus on 12 August 1435. This book was translated and printed first time in Latin; Ahmedis Arabsiadae Vitae & rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, historia. Lugduni Batavorum, ex typographia Elseviriana, 1636.
al-Ta'lif al-tahir fi shiyam al-Malik al-Zahir (Life of Zahir)
Fakihat al-Khulafa' wa Mufakahat al-Zurafa'
Jami' al-Hikayat; translated from Persian to Turkish.
al-'Aqd al-Farid fi al-Tawhid
Ghurrat al-Siyar fi Duwal al-Turk wa al-Tatar
Muntaha al-Adab fi Lughat al-Turk wa al-Ajam wa al-'Arab

References

Sources

References

(1 January 1994). "Islamic Desk Reference". BRILL.
Aka, Ismail. (1996). "The Agricultural and Commercial Activities of the Timurids in the First Half of the 15th Century". Oriente Moderno.

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