Abū al-Fidāʾ

Abū al-Fidāʾ

▪ Ayyūbid ruler and author
in full  Abū Al-fidāʾ Ismāʿīl Ibn ʿalī Al-mālik Al-muʾayyad ʿimad Ad-dīn , also called  Abulfeda 
born November 1273, Damascus
died October 27, 1331, Ḥamāh, Syria

      Ayyūbid dynasty historian and geographer who became a local sultan under the Mamlūk empire.

      Abū al-Fidāʾ was a descendant of Ayyūb, the father of Saladin, founder of the Ayyūbid dynasty that had been supplanted by the Mamlūks in Egypt and elsewhere before his birth. In 1285 he accompanied his father and his cousin (prince of Ḥamāh and a Mamlūk client) to Mamlūk sieges of Crusader strongholds. Abū al-Fidāʾ served the Mamlūk governor of Ḥamāh until he was made first governor of Ḥamāh (1310), then prince for life (1312). In 1320, after making a pilgrimage to Mecca with the Mamlūk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad, he became al-Mālik al-Muʾayyad, with the rank of sultan; and he continued to rule Ḥamāh until his death. His son Muḥammad succeeded him.

      Abū al-Fidāʾ was a patron of scholars and a scholar himself. His two major works were a history, Mukhtaṣar tāʾrīkh al-bashar (“Brief History of Man”), spanning pre-Islāmic and Islāmic periods to 1329; and a geography, Taqwīm al-buldān (1321; “Locating the Lands”). Both works were compilations of other authors, arranged and added to by Abū al-Fidāʾ, rather than original treatises. Popular in their day in the Middle East, they were much used by 18th- and 19th-century European Orientalists before earlier sources became available.

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