Muḥammad ibn al-Ḳāsim al-Nuwayrī al-Iskandarānī

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'''Muḥammad ibn al-Ḳāsim al-Nuwayrī al-Iskandarānī al-Mālikī'''<ref>For the spelling, see ; , uses Muḥammad ibn Qāsim ibn Muḥammad an-Nuwayrī as-Sikandarī al-Mālikī.</ref> (fl. 1365–1373) was a [[Muslim historian]] and native of [[Alexandria]] in the tradition of secular local historiography.<ref>; .</ref> He wrote a three-volume history ostensibly of the [[Alexandrian Crusade|Cypriot-led crusade]] that sacked his city in October 1365, to which he was an eyewitness. In fact, as his contemporary [[Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsḳalānī]] noted, the ''Kitāb al-Ilmām fīmā jarat bihi ʾl-aḥkām al-maḳḍiyya fī wāḳiʿat al-Iskandariyya'' mostly meanders through the earlier history of the city, leaving little room for the crusade with which he begins.<ref>; . Ibn Ḥajar's accurate description is repeated also by [[al-Sakhāwī]].</ref> It includes the story of [[Alexander the Great]] and [[Aristotle]], and even many events unrelated to the city. It was written between [[Anno Hegirae|AH]] 767 ([[Anno Domini|AD]] 1365–56) and 775 (1373–74). The dates of al-Nuwayrī's birth and death are unknown.<ref>See and , but , places his death in Alexandria in 1372.</ref> There is a manuscript copy of [[al-Masʿūdī]]'s ''Murūj'' in al-Nuwayrī's handwriting.

The ''Kitāb al-Ilmām'' was edited in six volumes by [[Aziz Atiya]] between 1968 and 1973. Atiya regards al-Nuwayrī as the most important historian for the crusade of 1365 from the Egyptian perspective.

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[[Category:People from Alexandria]]
[[Category:14th-century Egyptian people]]
[[Category:14th-century historians]]
[[Category:Muslims of the Alexandrian Crusade]]

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