At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Shihab al-Din Abu al-Makarim Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Mas'ud al-Shaybani al-Talafari al-Mawsili, a scholar and historian. He was born in Mosul in 593 AH (1196 CE) and died in 675 AH (1276 CE), according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". 1
His works and teachers, and the second source for his dates, need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Tala'fari Abu al-Makarim Muhammad ibn Yusuf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-talafari-abu-al-makarim-muhammad-ibn-yusuf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.