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Ibn Taghribirdi

Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi, or Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrī-Birdī, or Ibn Taghribirdi 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.

Works
Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah (). 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 (); 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 (); 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 (); 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 (); Biographies of the sultans and the caliphs. ==Bibliography==
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