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Safi al-Din al-Urmawi

صفي الدين الأرموي

1294 CE · 693 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, the great thirteenth-century music theorist of the Adwar and the Sharafiyya; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

12001225125012751300132513501375 c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu l-Fida · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru' · Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Ahmad ibn Muhsin al-Ba'labakki · Aisha bint Ibrahim ibn al-Siddiq

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Taught
Yaqut al-Musta'simi

People and things also explored

Arghun ibn Abdallah al-Kamili· Ibn al-Wahid (Sharaf al-Din Muhammad ibn Sharif)· Amasya (northern Anatolia)· Baghdad· Islamic Calligraphy (Sheila Blair)· Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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Arghun ibn Abdallah al-Kamili

Calligrapher, one of the three main followers of Yaqut al-Musta'simi in Iraq, active in the first half of the fourteenth century and best known for Qur'an manuscripts in rayhan script.