al-Musabbihi

The amir al-Mukhtar 'Izz al-Mulk Muhammad b. 'Ubaydallah b. al-Qasim b. Ahmad al-Musabbihi, katib; he was in the service of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, lord of Egypt, in 397 and headed the diwan of arrangement. ¹

The historian — author of the great Tarikh on Egypt's affairs: its governors, amirs, scholars and caliphs, its markets, majalis and prices, in thirteen thousand folios whose substance makes all else dispensable; his other works include al-Talwih, al-Tasrih, al-Gharq, al-Sharq, al-Ta'am, al-Idam, Darak al-baghya, Qisas al-anbiya', al-Mafatiha, al-Manakiha and al-Amthila li'l-duwal al-muqbila; he elegised his father the chief qadi 'Ubaydallah in verses. ¹