'Abd Allah Ibn al-Shishiri

Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Fadil, the well-known scholar called Ibn al-Shishiri al-Hanafi. He studied with scholars of Persia and excelled there in Arabic and the rational sciences. He then entered the lands of Rum, where Sultan Selim assigned him thirty Ottoman coins every day ¹.

He composed a Persian poem of about thirty couplets, in which one half of each couplet gives a date for the reign of Sultan Sulayman and the other half gives a date for the conquest of Rhodes. He also wrote glosses on the glosses to al-Sharif al-Sayyid's commentary on "al-Matali'", a commentary on al-Kafiyya, and a treatise in Persian on the meaning of a term ¹.

He died in about the year 923 ¹.