Ibn al-Qiftī
Jamāl ad-Dīn Abū l-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Qiftī ( Arabic جمال الدين أبو الحسن علي بن يوسف ابن القفطي, DMG Ǧamāl ad-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Qifṭī ; * 1172 in Koptos ; † 1248 ) was a medieval Arab historian. His best-known writing is called History of Scholars .
Ibn al-Qifti was born in Koptos and later stayed in Cairo , Jerusalem and Aleppo .
The title of 26 of his writings is known, but only two have survived:
- The History of the Scholars ( Kitab Ikhbar al-'ulama 'bi-akhbar al-hukama' or Ta'rikh al-hukama 'for short ) contains 414 biographies of physicists, philosophers and astronomers.
- The text Inbah al-ruwat 'ala Anbah al-nuhat contains around 1000 biographies of medieval Arab scholars.
Work edition
- Ibn al-Qiftî: Ta'rih al-Hükamâ. Edited by Julius Lippert, Leipzig 1903.
Web links
- A. Dietrich: Al-Qifti . In: Encyclopedia of Islam , 1999
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| SURNAME | Ibn al-Qiftī |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval arab historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1172 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coptus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1248 |