Shams al-Dīn Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn Sawdakīn al-Nūrī (d. 646/1248) was a Muslim scholar and mystic. He was born in Egypt in 578/1182 or 579/1183. Ibn al-Ṣābūnī (d. 680/1282), a Damascene scholar of ḥadīth and author of the biographical work Takmilat ikmāl al-akmāl ("Completion of the completeness of the perfect ones"), states that the name al-Nūrī goes back to the Zangid ruler Nūr al-Dīn Zangī (r. 589-607/1193-1211; the Zangids ruled Jazīra and Syria from