Ibn Iyas, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

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Roles: Historian
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Tattai, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim · Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali · Bakhraq, Muhammad ibn Umar · Al-Tanasi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah · Al-Biqa'i, Ibrahim ibn Umar

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People and things also explored

Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja· Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali· Al-Baji, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Saghir

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Iyas, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-iyas-muhammad-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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