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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Mughulṭāy b. Qilīj b. ʿAbdallāh al-Bakjarī al-Ḥikrī al-Ḥanafī (b. 689–762/1290–1361) was a historian and an expert in ḥadīth and genealogy (Ibn Ḥajar, 4:352; Ibn Taghrībirdī, 9:762). Of Turkish origin, he was born in Egypt and lived in Cairo (al-Suyūṭī, 133) and belonged to the Arabised class of awlād al-nās (lit., sons of the people), the descendants of the Mamlūk elite. Amongst his teachers were ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Wānī (d. 735/1334–5), Yūsuf b.
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- Language:eng
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