Ibn al-Shihna

Ibn al-Shihna (1348-1412 CE) came from a prominent family in Aleppo and was a Syrian Hanafi scholar and historian who wrote several books including Rawḍ al-manāẓir fī ʿilm al-awāʾil wa l-awāẖir ("Garden of the spectacles of the history of antiquity and modernity") which included talks he held with Tamerlane (aka Timur) as a representative of the scholars of Aleppo after Tamerlane's conquest of Aleppo in 1400 (wikipedia).