İbn Tanrıverdi

His style is annalistic and gives precise dates for most events; this format makes it clear that Ibn Taghribirdi had privileged access to the sultans and their records. The name "Taghribirdi" is cognate to modern Turkish "Tanrıverdi" and means god-given in Turkic languages.

Training under Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Badr al-Din al-Ayni and Ahmad ibn Arabshah is recorded. The recorded working language is Arabic, Turkic and Turkish. Works named in the authority record are al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah and al-Manhal al-Ṣāfī wa-al-Mustawfā baʻd al-Wāfī.

• Name — Ibn Taghribirdi • Birth Name — Jamal al-Din Ibn Yusuf • Born — 2 February 1411 • Birthplace — Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate (modern-day Egypt) • Died — 5 June 1470 • Place of death — Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate • Resting Place — Cairo, Egypt • Occupation — Historian • Notable Works — Al-Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira النجوم الزاھرۃ فی ملوک مصر والقاھرۃ • Years Active — circa 1435–1470 • Native Name — ابن تغري بردي

• Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah (النجوم الزاهرة في ملوك مصر والقاهرة). Chronicle of period from the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 641 to 1468. • Edited by William Popper. 12. vols. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, 1929–56. • Miṣr al-Jadīdah, al-Qāhirah, al-Maktab al-ʻArabī lil-Maʻārif, 2017. • al-Manhal al-ṣāfī wa-al-mustawfá baʻda al-wāfī (المنهل الصافي والمستوفي بعد الوافي); 13-vol. biographical dictionary with approx. 3000 entries celebrating the lives of sultans, princes (amirs), scholars and scientists (ulama), dignitaries, and entertainers, from the Bahri dynasty and later. • Ḥawādith al-duhūr fī madá al-ayyām wa-al-shuhūr (حوادث الدهور في مدى الأيام والشهور); Egypt history 1250–1517 continues al-Maqrizi's Suluk li-ma'rifat duwwal al-muluk. • Al-Baḥr al-zākhir fī tārīkh al-ʻālam wa-akhbār al-awāʼil wa-al-awākhir (البحر الزاخر في تاريخ العالم وأخبار الأوائل والأواخر); universal history from creation of Adam (National Library of Paris, No.1551); Iraq MS purchased by Dar al-Kutub, Egypt. • Mawrid al-laṭāfah fī man waliya al-salṭanah wa-al-khilāfah (مورد اللطافة في من وليه السلطنة والخلافة); Biographies of the sultans and the caliphs.