Al-Nuwayri's death at Cairo, 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333

Al-Nuwayri died at Cairo on 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333, aged fifty-six, having composed the Nihayat al-Arab fi Funun al-Adab — 9,000 pages in thirty-one volumes written between 714 and 731 — bequeathing his experience and culture to posterity in the form of a summa ^{1 2}.

Ibn Hajar describes him as good-looking, charming and companionable, and notes that a copy of his ample history in his own hand sold for two thousand dirhams, in thirty volumes; the historical fann of his work closes at 731, two years before his death, and its last annals read like notes set down for later revision which death forestalled ^{2 1}.