Abuʾl-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām Shihāb al-Dīn al-Manūfī al-Shāfiʿī (1443–1527) was a writer in

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and later

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. He was born in Manūf on 11 June 1443 (14 Rabīʿi 847 in the

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). He studied at

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before returning to Manūf to serve as a '' ḳāḍī'' (judge). He died in 1527 (931).Carl Brockelmann, ''History of the Arabic Written Tradition'', Volume 2 (Brill, 2017), p. 331 and suppl. Al-Manūfī was primarily a writer of local and regional history. Among his works are ''Kitāb al-Fayḍ al-madīd fī akhbār al-Nīl al-sadīd'', a tract on the

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and its source; ''Kitāb al-Badr al-ṭāliʿ min al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ'', an abridged version of Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī's treatise ''The Light that Shines on the People of the Ninth Century''; and ''Kitāb al-Naṣīḥa bi-mā abdathu ʾl-qarīḥa''. He had access to the now lost work of the 10th-century writer Ibn Sulaym al-Aswānī on

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.El-Hag H. M. Kheir, "A Contribution to a Textual Problem: Ibn Sulaym al-Aswāni's ''Kitāb Akhbār al-Nūba wa-l-Maqurra wa-l-Beja wa-l-Nīl''", ''Arabica'' 36,1 (1989): 36–80.

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{{authority control 1443 births 1527 deaths 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire People from Monufia Governorate 16th-century Egyptian people Scholars from the Mamluk Sultanate