Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus

أبو سعيد ابن يونس المؤرخ

895 CE · 281 AH – 958 CE · 347 AH

Abu Sa'id Abd al-Rahman b. Yunus al-Sadafi (281–347) — the Egyptian historian, grandson of Yunus b. Abd al-A'la; author of two histories of Egypt, the great one on Egyptians and a smaller one on foreigners who settled there 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: al-Bazzar Abu al-Tahir Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar · Al-Isma'ili, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim · al-Naqqash · Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Tabarani · Al-Mundhir al-Balluti

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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