Kamal al-Din ibn al-Nabih

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

Summary

Al-Kamal Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali b. Muhammad, known as Ibn al-Nabih the Egyptian; katib and poet of al-Malik al-Ashraf — who one day saw in his secretary-poet's inkwell a single line written on the spot, unmatched, and uttered a wonderful verse: 'O Kamal! — the orb of proclamation; you answered magnificence — whatever you willed to bring forth, you bring crowned; cut it, and it is eternally mine.' ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Kamal al-Din ibn al-Nabih”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-nabih/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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