Ibn Iyas
Historian
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Muhammad ibn Iyas is one of the most important historians in modern Egyptian history. He was an eyewitness to the Ottoman invasion of Egypt. He was born in Cairo and took his first education there. Wikipedia
Born: June 1448, Cairo, Egypt
Died: 1524 (age 76 years)
Books: Badāʼiʻ az-zuhūr fī waqāʼiʻ ad-duhūr, An Account of the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt in the Year A.H. 922 (A.D. 1516) Translated from the Third Volume of the Arabic Chronicle of Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmed Ibn Iyās, an Eyewitness of the Scenes He Describes, and An Account of the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt in the Year A.H. 922 (A.D. 1516)