Ibn al-Ṣayrafī, Tāj al-Riʾāsa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Walker, Paul E.
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Tāj al-Riʾāsa Amīn al-Dawla Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Munjib b. Sulaymān, known as Ibn al-Ṣayrafī (b. Shaʿbān 463/May 1071 in Cairo, d. 19 Ṣafar 542/20 July 1147), was one of the most famous clerks to work in and, eventually, direct the Fāṭimid chancery. He was the son of a money changer (ibn al-ṣayrafī) and the grandson of a clerk. He acquired his initial training as a clerk under the tutelage of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. Mufarrij, who was then director of the