Kurdish historian, geographer and leader (1273–1331)
For the lunar crater, see Abulfeda (crater).
Abulfeda
Born
November 1273
Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate
Died
27 October 1331(1331-10-27) (aged 57)
Hama, Mamluk Sultanate
Children
Al-Afdal Muhammad
Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān[1] (Arabic: إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود بن محمد بن عمر بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (Arabic: أبو الفداء; November 1273 – 27 October 1331),[2] was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.[3]
^Encyclopaedia Islamica. 16 October 2015.
^Gibbs (1986), p. 119
^Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, (edited by) Helaine Selin, pp. 7–8, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1997
Identifiants et Référentiels Sudoc Pour L'Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche – Abū al-Fidā (1273–1331) (in French)
بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (Arabic: أبو الفداء; November 1273 – 27 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era...
Catena Abulfeda is a chain of craters on the Moon that runs between the southern rim of the crater Abulfeda and the north rim of Almanon, then continues...
Al-Masudi of Baghdad (896–956 CE), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165 CE), Abulfeda (1273–1331 CE), and Al-Dimashqi (1256–1327 CE) mention the Muslim communities...
Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon relates an anecdote attributed to Abulfeda that Ali, on the death of Muhammad, exclaimed, O propheta, certe penis...
variously Romanised as Tana, Thana, Thâṇâ, and Thame. Ibn Battuta and Abulfeda knew it as Kukin Tana; Duarte Barbosa as Tana Mayambu. Before 1996, the...
crusades; he edited (1840), and in part translated (1848), the geography of Abulfeda. To him too is due a useful edition of the very curious records of early...
their time inaccurate to the local time. The 14th century Arab geographer Abulfeda predicted that circumnavigators would accumulate a one-day offset to the...
healthcare sectors. Several travelers visited the city, most famously Abulfeda: "Al-Qatif: a town next to Al-Ahsa, of a beautiful nature, whose people...
Japan and Java sailed primarily from its port. The Islamic geographer Abulfeda noted, in c. 1321, that its city walls remained ruined from its conquest...
theme of Chaldia, which according to the 10th century Arab geographer Abulfeda was regarded as being largely a Lazican port. Chaldia had already shown...
Jordan and which [contains] Galilee and the great plain of Esdrelon" 1321: Abulfeda, A Sketch of the Countries: "The Nahr Abi Futrus is the river that runs...
147 H. Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, 1903, vol. I, p. 110, quoting Abulfeda ("Hormuz was devastated by the incursions of the Tartars, and its people...
("The Finest Divisions Concerning Knowledge of the Climes") Abu al-Fida (Abulfeda, 1273–1331): Taqwīm al-Buldān ("Correct Account of the Lands") (probably)...
Al-Masudi of Baghdad (896–956 AD), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165 AD), Abulfeda (1273–1331 AD), and Al-Dimashqi (1256–1327 AD) mention the Muslim communities...
1257) May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273) November 11 – Stefan...
and al-Mas'udi (d. 956) and the Sunni historians al-Tabari (d. 923) and Abulfeda (d. 1331). In particular, Mu'awiya ordered his governor of Kufa, al-Mughira...
from Ibn Khaldun, but also from al-Masudi, al-Bakri, al-Idrisi, Yaqut, Abulfeda, al-Umari, and Ibn Battuta. Ge'ez literature also began covering history...
the ruined city of Athur, or Akur, occurs under the head of "Selamiyah." Abulfeda says, " To the south of Mosul, the lesser (?) Zab flows into the Tigris...
Khan Rustem Pasha Nicknames: Mother of Norias (أم النواعير) City of Abulfeda (مدينة أبي الفداء) Hama Location in Syria Show map of Syria Hama Hama (Eastern...
sultan Qalawun in the 1280s.[citation needed] By the early 14th century, Abulfeda the Hamathite was describing the city's "large and strong fortress". The...
Al-Masudi of Baghdad (896–956 AD), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100-1165 AD), Abulfeda (1273-1331 AD), and Al-Dimashqi (1256-1327 AD) mention the Muslim communities...
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