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Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (671–734/1273–1334)—whose full name was Fatḥ al-Dīn Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Yaʿmurī—was a biographer of the Prophet, ḥadīth transmitter, Shāfiʿī jurisprudent, rijāl expert, composer and collector of panegyric poetry (madīḥ, madḥ) about the Prophet, and bon vivant. A scion of a learned family from Seville, he was born in Cairo about three decades after his ancestors had left al-Andalus for North Africa. Ibn Sayyid al-Nās’s early biography bears witness to the
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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