ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl (1050-1143/1641-1731) of Damascus, known as Ibn al-Nābulusī , was an eminent Ṣūfī scholar and a leading Muslim polymath of the early modern period. According to his own autobiographical notes, he was born on 4 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1050/17 March 1641 ( al-Ḥawḍ al-mawrūd , fol. 48), during his father's journey to Egypt ( al-Ḥaqīqa wa-l-majāz , 1:50). The eminent Damascene historian and Ḥanafī jurisconsult, al-Murādī (d. 1206/1791), in his widely