Ibn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn Yusuf · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Historian · Poet · writer
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

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History-writing and social thought Literature

Place in the story

HistorianTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Isma'il ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad al-Nasri, an Andalusian man of letters and historian from the Banu Nasr of Granada. He lived after leaving Granada with his father, first in Bejaia and then in Fez. ¹

Dates

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as around 1324 CE and his death as 807 AH (1404 CE). ¹ These two dates come from one source, so they need an additional source.

People and things also explored

Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi· al-Jahiz· Al-Kharashi, Samarra akhbari· Ibn al-Abbar, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah· Ibn al-Athir Imad al-Din· Idris ibn Husam al-Din al-'Ajami· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.335-337

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Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi

A scholar and writer of the Qays lineage, named after Tifash in the Maghrib.