Abuʾl-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām Shihāb al-Dīn al-Manūfī al-Shāfiʿī (1443–1527) was a writer in Mamluk and later

Ottoman Egypt The Eyalet of Egypt (, ) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the a ...

. He was born in Manūf on 11 June 1443 (14 Rabīʿi 847 in the Islamic calendar). He studied at Cairo before returning to Manūf to serve as a ''

ḳāḍī A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

'' (judge). He died in 1527 (931).Carl Brockelmann, ''History of the Arabic Written Tradition'', Volume 2 (Brill, 2017), p. 331 and suppl. Al-Manūfī was primarily a writer of local and regional history. Among his works are ''Kitāb al-Fayḍ al-madīd fī akhbār al-Nīl al-sadīd'', a tract on the Nile and its source; ''Kitāb al-Badr al-ṭāliʿ min al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ'', an abridged version of

Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī Shams ( ar, شمس , links=no), an Arabic word meaning ''sun'', may refer to: Media * ''Shams'' (newspaper), a defunct Saudi newspaper * ''Al-Shams'' (newspaper), a Libyan government newspaper until 2011 * Network for Public Policy Studies, an I ...

's treatise ''The Light that Shines on the People of the Ninth Century''; and ''Kitāb al-Naṣīḥa bi-mā abdathu ʾl-qarīḥa''. He had access to the now lost work of the 10th-century writer

Ibn Sulaym al-Aswānī Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Salim (or ibn Sulaym) al-Aswani ( ar, أبو محمد عبد الله ابن احمد ابن سليم الأسواني, ʿAbū Muḥammad Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Salīm/Sulaym al-Aswānī) was a tenth-century ...

on Nubia.El-Hag H. M. Kheir, "A Contribution to a Textual Problem: Ibn Sulaym al-Aswāni's ''Kitāb Akhbār al-Nūba wa-l-Maqurra wa-l-Beja wa-l-Nīl''", ''Arabica'' 36,1 (1989): 36–80.

References

{{authority control 1443 births 1527 deaths 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire People from Monufia Governorate 16th-century Egyptian people Scholars from the Mamluk Sultanate