Ibn al-Jazari

Ibn al-Jazari was born in Damascus in 1350 CE. He lived or traveled to a variety of places including Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Busra, Samarkand, Khurasan, Herat, Yazd, Isfahan, Basra, and Shiraz where he died in 1429 CE (M. Ben Cheneb in Encyclopedia of Islam v. 3, 1991:753). He worked at different times as a judge (qadi) and a teacher and wrote a great number of works (M. Ben Cheneb in Encyclopedia of Islam v. 3, 1991:753). Ibn al-Jazari was apparently responsible for the manuscript Arabic text no.6739 in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, which is a history of Egypt and Syria from the year 689 of the Hegira (1289-1290 AD) to 699 H. (1299-1300 AD) ( Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005). This work is apparently a continuation of Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's Mir'at al-zaman by Shams al-Din al-Jazari (see Blochet 1925) ( Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005).