At a glance
- Roles
- Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Barakat Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Iyas al-Nasiri al-Jarkasi al-Hanafi (852–930 AH). A leading historian of the late Mamluk period in Egypt and Syria and the early Ottoman rule, and a Hanafi. 1
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People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
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. “Ibn Iyas, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-iyas-muhammad-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.