Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Kardabūs al-Tawzarī (''

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'' and jurisprudence under

Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī ( ar, أبو طاهر السلفي; born Isfahan in 472 AH/1079 CE, died Alexandria in 576/1180), was a leading scholar and teacher in twelfth-century Egypt. Among his many works is the ''Mu‘jam al-safar'' (the Dictionary ...

at Alexandria. His best-known work is ''Taʾrīkh al-Andalus'', a history of Muslim Spain. His ''Kitāb al-iktifāʾ'' is the earliest source to attribute the title Emperor of the Two Religions to King

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. He died in

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