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Al-Nuwayri

1279 - 1333

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Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī (Arabic: شهاب الدين أحمد بن عبد الوهاب النويري, 5 April 1279 – 5 June 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب, Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab), which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Nuwayri is the 329th most popular historian (down from 272nd in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Egyptian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Al-Nuwayri ranks 329 out of 561. Before him are Ibn 'Idhari, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Edwin O. Reischauer, Stepanos Asoghik, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Ghazar Parpetsi. After him are Johannes Meursius, A. J. P. Taylor, Élisabeth Roudinesco, Mikhail Pogodin, Jean Delumeau, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.

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Among people born in 1279, Al-Nuwayri ranks 3. Before him are Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, and Ismail I of Granada.  Among people deceased in 1333, Al-Nuwayri ranks 8. Before him are Antipope Nicholas V, Muhammad IV of Granada, Rita of Armenia, Manuel II of Trebizond, Prince Morikuni, and Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria. After him is Momik.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Al-Nuwayri ranks 440 out of 642. Before him are Sayf ad-Din Inal (1380), Ibrahim Moustafa (1904), Michel Pablo (1911), Inji Aflatoun (1924), André Aciman (1951), and Amasis Painter (-550). After him are Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334), Pope Kedron of Alexandria (100), Haim Saban (1944), Naguib Sawiris (1954), Pope Theodosius I of Alexandria (450), and Osorkon IV (-800).

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Among HISTORIANS In Egypt

Among historians born in Egypt, Al-Nuwayri ranks 8. Before him are Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Al-Maqrizi (1364), H. A. R. Gibb (1895), and Yahya of Antioch (980). After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754).

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