Ibn Sura · Islam Museum

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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 · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi

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The notable Abu'l-Futuh Nasr ibn Abi'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Khalaf al-Ansari, known as Ibn Sura; book-broker of Egypt with a great share in the trade — he held a salon in the vestibule of his house on Sundays and Wednesdays where the chief notables and virtuosi gathered and the books for sale were shown to them until the market closed; when al-Salafi died he travelled to Alexandria to sell his books. ¹

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

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Sura”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-sura/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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