Sarim al-Din Ibn Duqmaq
صارم الدين ابن دقماق
c. 1349 CE · c. 750 AH – between 1406 and 1407 CE · 809 AH
The Cairene soldier-turned-historian Ibn Duqmaq (d. 809) — wrote nearly two hundred volumes: a great annals history, an alphabetical one, two volumes on the Turkish dynasty, a separate biography of Barquq, and a Hanafi tabaqat for which he was tested 1.
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- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Overview
Sarim al-Din Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Aydam ibn Duqmaq al-Hanafi, an Egyptian historian. He was born in Egypt around 750 AH and died in 809 AH. The conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. 1
According to Shadharat al-Dhahab, he dressed in the garb of the soldiers and sought knowledge, studied jurisprudence a little, then turned to literature and devoted himself to history. He wrote, or co-wrote, about two hundred volumes, among them a large history arranged by years and another arranged by letters, an account of the Turkish state in two volumes, a biography of the king al-Zahir Barquq, and the classes of the Hanafis. The source says that he was tested because of them. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 89
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