| Intro | Historian, encyclopedist and calligrapher (1279-1333) |
| Was |
Scholar Artist Historian Encyclopedist Calligrapher Poet Writer Literary scholar |
| From | Egypt |
| Type |
Arts Academia Creativity Literature Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 5 April 1279, Akhmim |
| Death |
5 June 1333, Cairo (aged 54 years) |
Al-Nuwayrī, also Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad, b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayri (born April 5, 1279 in Akhmim, present-day Egypt – died 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب, Nihayat al-arab fī funūn al-adab), which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols’ conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333.