At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Ibn al-Ulayf al-Mahalli al-Shafii. He worked in literature and composed smooth verse on every theme. Fortune brought him the best of his age, and he was given blessings of usefulness, a comfortable life and contentment 1.
A salary was arranged for him, on the model of Ibn al-Ulayf, at the end of the reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay, his cousin. When Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri took power, he granted him a land allotment, and in his days his condition was good. He died in the year 926 1.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 554
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islam.museum contributors. “Shihab al-Din Ibn al-'Ulayf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shihab-ibn-ulayf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.