Abū l-Walīd ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Naṣr al-Azdī al-Ḥāfiẓ (351-403/962-1013), called Ibn al-Faraḍī , was an Andalusī historian known principally for his Taʾrīkh ʿulamāʾ al-Andalus , a biographical dictionary of Andalusī religious scholars. Born in Córdoba on 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 351/21 December 962, he began his studies there under such prestigious scholars as Ibn ʿAwn Allāh (d. 378/988), Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Mufarrij (d. 380/990), ʿAbdallāh b. Qāsim al-Thagrī (d. 383/993), and Abū Zakariyyā b. ʿĀʾidh (d.