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Ibn Taghribirdi

Muslim Mamluk historian (1411–1470)

Summary

Muslim Mamluk historian (1411–1470)

Field	Value
name	Ibn Taghribirdi
birth_name	Jamal al-Din Ibn Yusuf
birth_date
birth_place	Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
(modern-day Egypt)
death_date
death_place	Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
resting_place	Cairo, Egypt
occupation	Historian
notableworks	Al-Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira
النجوم الزاھرۃ فی ملوک مصر والقاھرۃ
years_active	circa 1435–1470

(modern-day Egypt) النجوم الزاھرۃ فی ملوک مصر والقاھرۃ

Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi (), 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. His style is annalistic and gives precise dates for most events; this format makes it clear that Ibn Taghribirdi had privileged access to the sultans and their records. The name "Taghribirdi" is cognate to modern Turkish "Tanrıverdi" and means god-given in Turkic languages.

Works

Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah (النجوم الزاهرة في ملوك مصر والقاهرة). Chronicle of period from the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 641 to 1468.
- Edited by William Popper. 12. vols. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, 1929–56.
- Miṣr al-Jadīdah, al-Qāhirah, al-Maktab al-ʻArabī lil-Maʻārif () , 2017.
al-Manhal al-ṣāfī wa-al-mustawfá baʻda al-wāfī (المنهل الصافي والمستوفي بعد الوافي); 13-vol. biographical dictionary with approx. 3000 entries celebrating the lives of sultans, princes (amirs), scholars and scientists (ulama), dignitaries, and entertainers, from the Bahri dynasty and later.
Ḥawādith al-duhūr fī madá al-ayyām wa-al-shuhūr (حوادث الدهور في مدى الأيام والشهور); Egypt history 1250–1517 continues al-Maqrizi's Suluk li-ma'rifat duwwal al-muluk.
Al-Baḥr al-zākhir fī tārīkh al-ʻālam wa-akhbār al-awāʼil wa-al-awākhir (البحر الزاخر في تاريخ العالم وأخبار الأوائل والأواخر); universal history from creation of Adam (National Library of Paris, No.1551); Iraq MS purchased by Dar al-Kutub, Egypt.
Mawrid al-laṭāfah fī man waliya al-salṭanah wa-al-khilāfah (مورد اللطافة في من وليه السلطنة والخلافة); Biographies of the sultans and the caliphs.

Bibliography

History of Egypt 1382–1469; transl. from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥāsin Ibn Taghrī Birdī by William Popper, Berkeley 1954–63.

References

For a more complete list of variations on the spelling and form of his name, see [[International Standard Name Identifier. ISNI]]'s listing for him [http://isni.org/isni/0000000116180016 Ibn Taghribirdi: variations].
Massoud, Sami. (2007-04-24). "The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period". BRILL.
"Ibn Taghribirdi Abu Al Mahasin Yusuf 1411 1470 Ce - AbeBooks".
"Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah".
Young, M. J. L.. (1990-05-16). "Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period". Cambridge University Press.
Ibn Taghrībirdī. (1984). "al-Manhal al-ṣāfī wa-al-mustawfá baʻda al-wāfī". al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb.
Ibn Taghrībirdī. (1990). "Ḥawādith al-duhūr fī madá al-ayyām wa-al-shuhūr". ʻĀlam al-Kutub.
Taghrībirdī (Ibn), Abū al-Maḥāsin, Yūsuf. (1997). "Mawrid al-laṭāfah fī man waliya al-salṭanah wa-al-khilāfah". Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah.

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