al-Jazarī, Shams al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Eychenne, Mathieu
Leiden
Brill
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Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Jazarī (d.739/1338), better known simply as al-Jazarī, was a Syrian historian, famous for his chief work entitled Ḥawādith al-zamān wa-anbāʾuhu wa-wafayāt al-akābir wa-l-aʿyān min abnāʾihi ("Events and news of the time, with obituaries of its great and noble sons"), known also as Taʾrīkh al-Jazarī ("Al-Jazarī's history"). With the exception of a short biography written by his master and friend, the historian and traditionist al-Birzālī (d. 739/1339), and