Eychenne, Mathieu

Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ṣaṣrā (fl. late eighth/fourteenth century) was a Syrian historian, known only for his work entitled al-Durra al-muḍīʾa fī l-dawla al-Ẓāhiriyya (“The enlightening pearl, concerning the rule of al-Ẓāhir [Barqūq, r. 784–91/1382–9, 792–801/1390–9]), a late-e…

Karīm al-Dīn Abū l-Faḍāʾil Akram (or ʿAbd al-Karīm) b. Hibatallāh Ibn al-Sadīd al-Qibṭī al-Muslimānī (d. 724/1324), commonly referred to as Karīm al-Dīn al-Kabīr (“the Great”) in the narrative sources, was the first scribe ( kātib ) of the Mamlūk Era (648–923/1250–1517) to hold …

Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Jazarī (d.739/1338), better known simply as al-Jazarī, was a Syrian historian, famous for his chief work entitled Ḥawādith al-zamān wa-anbāʾuhu wa-wafayāt al-akābir wa-l-aʿyān min abnāʾihi (“Events and news of the time, with obit…