al-Bakrī, Ibn Abī l-Surūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sabra, Adam
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Ibn Abī l-Surūr al-Bakrī (998-c.1078/1589-c.1667) was the most important chronicler of early Ottoman Egypt down to the middle of the eleventh/seventeenth century. He was the son of Muḥammad Abū l-Surūr al-Bakrī (971-1007/1563 or 1564-99) and a grandson of Muḥammad b. Abī l-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (930-94/1524-86), who established the lineage of religious scholars known as al-sāda al-Bakriyya , the most influential lineage of Muslim religious scholars in Ottoman Egypt. After his father's