Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzi al-'Amiri al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi, Abu al-Makarrim Najm al-Din, was a historian and inquiring littérateur, born and died at Damascus in 1061 AH (1651 CE). ¹

His books include al-Kawakib al-Sa'ira on the notables of the tenth century; Lutf al-Samar wa-Qatf al-Thamar on the first layer of the eleventh century, from which al-Muhibbi drew heavily; Husn al-Tanabuh on similitude; 'Uqd al-Shawahid on morals and sermons; an epistle on commanding right and forbidding wrong; al-Nujum al-Zawahir, a commentary on his father Badr al-Din's urjuza on the grave and lesser sins; and Itqan Ma Yahsun on the hadith. ¹