At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Al-Nuwayri began a second copy of the Nihaya: its first volume finished 20 Dhu al-Qa'da 721/11 December 1321, the fifth on 22 Jumada I 722/8 June 1322, the seventeenth on 7 Ramadan 722/19 September and the eighteenth on 26 Ramadan/8 October — eighteen volumes in under ten months 1.
The copyist's capacity
His biographers noted he could fill three manuscript notebooks in a day; besides the copies of his encyclopaedia he made and sold there were eight copies of the Sahih of al-Bukhari — writing the copy, filling it, carrying over its collations and readings and finishing it in a thousand — and he was deemed an excellent calligrapher and bookbinder 1 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Nuwayri
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Nuwayri in the audition sessions: Sahih al-Bukhari under Wazira bint al-Munadhdha, 715/1315· Al-Nuwayri's death at Cairo, 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333· The Iwan al-Bahri dream: al-Nuwayri still at the Nasiriyya, 13 Dhu al-Qa'da 729/8 September 1329· Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310· Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298· Composition of the Nihaya begins: volume one dated 714/1314· Recall to Cairo as mubashir of the royal estates and Mansuri waqfs, Ramadan 703/1304· Return from Tripoli to Cairo and the Delta inspectorate, 712/1312
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 159
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/197
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islam.museum contributors. “The second copy of the Nihaya: eighteen volumes in under ten months, 721-722/1321-1322”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-copy-721/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.
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