Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Nuwayrī al-Iskandarānī al-Mālikī (fl. 1365–1373) was a Muslim historian and native of

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in the tradition of secular local historiography. He wrote a three-volume history ostensibly of the Cypriot-led crusade that sacked his city in October 1365, to which he was an eyewitness. In fact, as his contemporary Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsḳalānī noted, the ''Kitāb al-Ilmām fīmā jarat bihi ʾl-aḥkām al-maḳḍiyya fī wāḳiʿat al-Iskandariyya'' mostly meanders through the earlier history of the city, leaving little room for the crusade with which he begins. It includes the story of

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and

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, and even many events unrelated to the city. It was written between AH 767 ( AD 1365–66) and 775 (1373–74). The dates of al-Nuwayrī's birth and death are unknown.See and , but , places his death in Alexandria in 1372. There is a manuscript copy of al-Masʿūdī's ''Murūj'' in al-Nuwayrī's handwriting. The ''Kitāb al-Ilmām'' was edited in six volumes by Aziz Atiya between 1968 and 1973. Atiya regards al-Nuwayrī as the most important historian for the crusade of 1365 from the Egyptian perspective.

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