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Historian, encyclopedist and calligrapher (1279-1333)
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Place of birth
Akhmim
Death
5 June 1333 (aged 54 years)
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Cairo
Age
54 years
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Al-Nuwayrī, also Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad, b. 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayri (born April 5, 1279 in Akhmim, present-day Egypt – died 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب, Nihayat al-arab fī funūn al-adab), which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333.
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Notable Egyptian artists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian people in literature
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Notable Egyptian Scholars
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Artists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Historians
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Encyclopedists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Calligraphers
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Poets
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Writers
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
Notable Egyptian Literary scholars
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1200 to 1399
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