an-Nuwairi
Ahmad an-Nuwairī ( Arabic شهاب الدين أحمد بن عبد الوهاب بن محمد النويري, DMG Šihāb ad-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd a-Wahhāb b. Muḥammad an-Nuwairī ; * 1279 in Cairo ; † 1333 ) was an Egyptian historian and encyclopaedist of the Mamluk period in Egypt . He is the author of the encyclopedia Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab .
He also wrote a chronicle of Syria , which the conquests of the Mongols in Syria portrays, and a history of the Almohad Spain and Africa and the conquest of the city Marrakech .
literature
- Chapoutot-Remadi, M. " al-Nuwayrī, S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bakrī al-Tamīmī al-Ḳuras̲h̲ī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī. " Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition., 2012.
- Reuven Amitai : The Mongols in the Islamic lands: studies in the history of the Ilkhanate. Aldershot [u. a.]: Ashgate Variorum, 2007
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| SURNAME | an-Nuwairi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | al-Nuwayrī; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb an-Nuwairī; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb an-Nuwairī; Shihāb-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb an-Nuwairī; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb an-Nuwairī; Novairi; Abu-ʾl-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb Ibn-Muḥammad Shihāb-ad-Dīn an-Nuwairī; Shihāb-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al Wahhāb an Nuwairī; al-Nuwayri; Ahmed ebn Abd al wehab Novaïri; Novairi; Chéhab ad Dyn Ahmed Novaïri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian historian and encyclopedist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1279 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1333 |