• Abu'l-Fida was born in Damascus, where his father Malik ul-Afdal, brother of Emir Al-Mansur Muhammad II of Hama, had fled from the Mongols. Abu'l-Fida...
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  • Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (Arabic: أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي, romanized: Abū al-Fiḍā’ Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn...
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    The Abu'l-Fida Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع أَبُو الْفِدَا, romanized: Jāmiʿ Abū'l-Fidāʾ) is an Ayyubid-era mosque in Hama, Syria, located on the banks of the...
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    contemporary reference to the Gulf as being named after Berbera like Abu'l-Fida before him. Berbera has been a prominent port since antiquity The International...
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    Tarikh al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar (History of Abu al-Fida), by Kurdish historian Abu’l-Fida. History of Egypt, by Egyptian historian Al-Makrizi. The...
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    Tarikh al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar (History of Abu al-Fida), by Kurdish historian Abu’l-Fida. History of Egypt, by Egyptian historian Al-Makrizi. History...
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    region of Gordyene. The medieval Islamic medieval writers al-Ya'qubi and Abu'l-Fida, who called the site Fenek or Fanak, described it as the site of an impregnable...
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  • Abūʾl-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī (Persian: ابوالفضل محمد بن حسین بیهقی; died September 21, 1077), better known as Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (ابوالفضل بیهقی;...
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  • As-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il, better known as as-Salih Isma'il, (1326 – 4 August 1345[citation needed]) was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt...
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    p. 178 and Yaqut, IV, p. 677; cited in Le Strange 1890, pp. 509–510 Abu'l-Fida, p. 247; cited in Le Strange 1890, p. 479 Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977...
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    considerable springs, vineyards, and fruit groves. The ruler of Hama and scholar Abu'l-Fida (d. 1341) noted that Jabal Amila "runs down the coast as far south as...
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  • Said al-Maghribi Ibn al-Nafis Ibn al-Mujawir 14th century Al-Dimashqi Abu'l-Fida Ibn al-Wardi Hamdallah Mustawfi Ibn Battuta Lin Nu 15th century Abd-al-Razzāq...
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  • Arabic Abu'l-Fida Ibn Idhari Al-Dhahabi Ibn Battuta Ibn al-Khatib Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari Ibn Kathir Ibn al-Tiqtaqa Ibn al-Furat Al-Mufaddal Ibn Khaldun...
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    Mongol army of the Ilkhanate in 1281. Later, in the early 14th century, Abu'l-Fida noted that in ar-Rastan, "Each of the houses is so large as to be almost...
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  • as being the possessor of some quality, as Abu'l Na'ama "father of grace", or "the graceful one"; Abu'l Fida, "father of devotion", or "the devout one"...
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  • al-Dīn al-Maqdisī Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282) Ibn Abd al-Zahir (d. 1293) Abu'l-Fida (d. 1331) al-Nuwayri (d. 1332) al-Mizzi (d. 1341) al-Dhahabi (d. 1348)...
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    concubine Bayad, a freed slave girl. 18th Al-Malik as-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il 27 June 1342 3 August 1345 Kipchak Turk Son of an-Nasir Muhammad...
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    having left Krak des Chevaliers in search of easier prey. According to Abu'l-Fida, "Recognising that Maqab was impregnable and that he had no hope of capturing...
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    called after him in the northeastern section of the city. The geographer Abu'l Fida (1273–1331), the ruler of Hama, described Safed as follows: [Safed] was...
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    ground. It is unclear if local Jews had converted to Christianity. In 1321 Abu'l-Fida noted: "Maab, or Ar Rabba lies in the Balka Province. According to the...
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    Arabic Abu'l-Fida Ibn Idhari Al-Dhahabi Ibn Battuta Ibn al-Khatib Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari Ibn Kathir Ibn al-Tiqtaqa Ibn al-Furat Al-Mufaddal Ibn Khaldun...
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    ramps and terraces of the citadel seen today were built in his time. Abu'l-Fida and Ibn al-Wardi record that, among the important events which took place...
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    concubine Bayad, a freed slave girl. 18th Al-Malik as-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il 27 June 1342 3 August 1345 Kipchak Turk Son of an-Nasir Muhammad...
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    of the surviving children, given in the work of the Kurdish historian Abu'l Fida (who was the Ayyubid Emir of Hama), are as follows; Malik Al-Kamil Malik...
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  • Arabic Abu'l-Fida Ibn Idhari Al-Dhahabi Ibn Battuta Ibn al-Khatib Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari Ibn Kathir Ibn al-Tiqtaqa Ibn al-Furat Al-Mufaddal Ibn Khaldun...
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  • Abul Fida, vol. I, p. 212. Bihar al-Anwar, vol. XII, on the life of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq Shi'a Islam, p. 62 Ya'qubi. vol. II, p. 224; Abu'l-Fida', vol...
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  • al-Salah (1181-1245) Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati Mala Pareshan (1356-1416) Abu'l Fida (1273-1331) Kurdish, the crater Abulfeda on the Moon is named after him...
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    was turned into a fortress. It is now a treasure house of the Turks." Abu'l-Fida (1273−1331) noted that Al Karak "is a celebrated town with a very high...
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    usus scholarum (Hanover, 1899), 42. William's expedition is found in Abuʿl-Fida (Abulfeda), A Concise History of Humanity, and Roger's in Ibn al-Athīr...
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  • Arabic Abu'l-Fida Ibn Idhari Al-Dhahabi Ibn Battuta Ibn al-Khatib Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari Ibn Kathir Ibn al-Tiqtaqa Ibn al-Furat Al-Mufaddal Ibn Khaldun...
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