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Ibn Ahmad Sayrafi

Ibn Ahmad Sayrafi, also known as Ibn al-Abnusi, is a Baghdad scholar recorded as dying in 457 AH (1065 CE), about whom no biographical notice survives.

Ibn Ahmad Shihab Din Zanjani

Ibn Ahmad Shihab Din Zanjani (الزنجاني) was a Sunni Shafi'i jurist, legal theorist, and linguist born in Zanjan, Iran, who taught in Abbasid Baghdad and died in 1258.

Ibn Ahmad Sijzi

Da'laj ibn Ahmad al-Sijzi (دعلج بن أحمد السجزي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter, jurist, and wealthy merchant-philanthropist who settled in Baghdad and died there in 962.

Ibn Ahmad Tusi

Ibn Ahmad Tusi, fully Abu Muhammad Hajib ibn Ahmad al-Tusi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Tus and Nishapur who died in 336 AH (947 or 948 CE).

Ibn Ajurrum

Ibn Ajurrum (ابن آجروم) was a Moroccan grammarian and Quran recitation scholar of Fez, 1273 to 1323, known for the Arabic grammar primer Muqaddima al-Ajurrumiyya, still taught today.

Ibn Akhi Mimi Daqqaq

Ibn Akhi Mimi Daqqaq (ابن أخي ميمي الدقاق) was a trustworthy hadith transmitter of 10th-century Baghdad, a flour dealer by trade, who died in 390 AH (999/1000 CE).

Ibn al-'Attar

Ibn al-'Attar (ابن العطار) was a Baghdad hadith transmitter of the fifth century AH, born in 384 AH, who served as deputy to the caliphs al-Qa'im and al-Muqtadi.

Ibn al-'Iraqi

Ibn al-'Iraqi (ابن العراقي) was a Shafi'i hadith scholar and chief judge of Egypt, born and died in Cairo, son of the hadith master al-Hafiz al-'Iraqi.

Ibn al-A'dhulani, Abu al-Qasim al-Taymi al-Kufi, was a fifth-century AH hadith transmitter who studied in Nishapur, Baghdad, Damascus, and Egypt, died in Kufa in 470 AH, and compiled one surviving hadith manuscript.

Ibn al-Abbar

Ibn al-Abbar (ابن الأبار) was an Andalusi historian, poet, and chancery secretary of Valencia and Tunis who negotiated the city's surrender to Aragon in 1238.

Ibn al-Adim

Ibn al-Adim (ابن العديم) was a historian, jurist, calligrapher, and diplomat of Aleppo who served its Ayyubid rulers until the Mongol conquest of 1260 and wrote the Bughyat al-Talab, a biographical dictionary and history of Aleppo.

Ibn al-Akfani

Ibn al-Akfani (ابن الأكفاني) was a physician and encyclopedic scholar born in Sinjar around 1286 who headed the Mansuri Hospital in Cairo and died of plague in 1348.

Ibn al-Akhram (hadith hafiz of Isfahan, d. 301 AH)

Ibn al-Akhram (ابن الأخرم) was Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Asbahani, a reliable hadith memorizer and jurist of Isfahan who traveled to collect hadith and died in 301 AH.

Ibn al-Akhram (hadith scholar, d. 494 AH)

Ibn al-Akhram (ابن الأخرم) was a fifth-century AH hadith scholar who died in 494 AH, praised by al-Dhahabi as "the last of the musnads" and an imam in ten sciences.

Ibn al-Akhram Muhammad ibn al-Nadr ibn Marr al-Dimashqi

Ibn al-Akhram Muhammad ibn al-Nadr ibn Marr al-Dimashqi (ابن الأخرم) was a 10th-century Quran reader of Damascus who led Quranic reading teaching in Syria until his death in 952.

Ibn al-Alkami

Ibn al-Alkami (ابن العلقمى) was the last vizier of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad, serving al-Musta'sim from 1245 until the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258, after which he died.

Ibn al-Alqami

Ibn al-Alqami (ابن العلقمي) was the last vizier of the Abbasid caliphate, serving Caliph al-Musta'sim in Baghdad from 1245 until the Mongol conquest of 1258, dying months later.

Ibn al-Arif

Ibn al-Arif (ابن العريف) was a Sufi master of Almería in Almoravid-era al-Andalus who died in 1141; his treatise Mahasin al-majalis became a foundational text of Andalusian Sufism.

Ibn al-Athir

Ibn al-Athir (ابن الأثير), full name Izz al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali, was an Arab historian of Mosul, 1160 to 1233, known for al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh, a universal chronicle ending in 1231.

Ibn al-Azraq al-Fariqi

Ibn al-Azraq al-Fariqi (ابن الأزرق الفارقي) was a Muslim historian and jurist of Mayyafariqin, born in 1117, who wrote the chronicle Ta'rikh Mayyafariqin wa Amid.

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Ibn al-Balkhi

Ibn al-Balkhi (ابن البلخي) was a Persian author of the Fārs-nāma, the oldest comprehensive Persian history and geography of Fārs, written under Saljuq rule; he died in 1116 or 1117.

Ibn al-Banna

Ibn al-Banna (ابن البناء) was a Moroccan mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who lived from about 1256 to 1321 and worked in Marrakesh and Fez under Marinid rule.

Ibn al-Bawwab

Ibn al-Bawwab (ابن البواب), in full Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Hilal, was an Arab calligrapher of Baghdad who perfected Ibn Muqla's proportional script system and died in 1022.

Ibn al-Baytar

Ibn al-Baytar (ابن البيطار) was an Andalusian botanist and pharmacologist, chief herbalist to the Ayyubid sultans al-Kamil and al-Salih Ayyub, who died in Damascus in 1248.

Ibn al-Bazri

Ibn al-Bazri (ابن البزري), Abu al-Qasim Umar al-Bazri al-Jazari (1078–1165), was a Shafi'i jurist, imam, mufti, and teacher of Jazirat Ibn Umar, and wrote a commentary on al-Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab.

Ibn al-Dawadari

Ibn al-Dawadari (ابن الدواداري) was a Mamluk-era historian and man of letters of Cairo, born in 1289, known for the nine-volume universal chronicle Kanz al-durar.

Ibn al-Dayba'

Ibn al-Dayba' (ابن الديبع) was a Yemeni hadith scholar, historian, and Shafi'i jurist of Zabid, born in 1461 and died in 1537, whose chronicles are the first-hand source for Yemen's history from 1495 to 1517.

Ibn al-Faqih

Ibn al-Faqih (ابن الفقيه) was a 9th-century Persian geographer from Hamadan who wrote Kitab al-Buldan, a description of the Islamic world centered on Arabia, Persia, and Iraq, around 903.

Ibn al-Farid

Ibn al-Farid (ابن الفارض) was an Arab Sufi poet of Ayyubid Egypt, born in 1181 or 1182, whose mystical odes rank among the finest in Arabic.