Bahaa al-Din ibn Hamdun
بهاء الدين ابن حمدون
1102 CE · 495 AH – 1167 CE · 562 AH
Bahaa al-Din Ibn Hamdun (495–562) — Abbasid katib, head of the Mustanjidi chancery; author of the celebrated Tadhkira miscellany; imprisoned by al-Mustanjid over anecdotes read as attacks on the dynasty, and died in custody 1.
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- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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