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Al-Safadi's earliest attested copying, 718/1318

أقدم شهادة على نسخ الصفدي بيده، ٧١٨هـ

1318 CE · 718 AH

Al-Safadi's copying activity is already attested in 718/1318 by a manuscript of Ibn Nubata's Khutab in his hand; he went on copying so assiduously that autograph volumes he wrote number nearly five hundred, with twice as much again in his chancery production 1 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Levant & Iraq

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Al-Safadi's copying activity is already attested in 718/1318 by a manuscript of Ibn Nubata's Khutab in his hand; he went on copying so assiduously that autograph volumes he wrote number nearly five hundred, with twice as much again in his chancery production 1 2.

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Had participant
Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi· جمال الدين ابن نباتة المصري
During the reign of
al-Mustakfi I

People and things also explored

Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326· Al-Safadi at Damascus meets Ibn Taymiyya, 717/1317· Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi· جمال الدين ابن نباتة المصري· Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 759
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , vol. 2 p. 89
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Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326

Al-Safadi's gifts as a stylist and calligrapher opened government service to him: he first held kitabat al-darj at Safad, then at Cairo; he conducted kitabat al-sirr at Aleppo for a time between 723/1323 and 726/1326, and briefly at al-Rahba toward the end of the decade, while shuttling between the capitals Damascus and Cairo.