Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī, or Ṣalaḥ al-Dīn al-Ṣafadī (Arabic: صلاح الدين الصَّفديّ; full name - Ṣalaḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Ṣafa Khalīl ibn Aybak ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Albakī al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363); he was a Turkic[1] Mamluk author and historian. He studied under the historian and Shafi'i scholar, al-Dhahabi.
He was born in Safad, Palestine under Mamluk rule. His wealthy family afforded him a broad education, memorising the Qur’ān and reciting the books of Ḥadīth. He excelled in the social sciences of grammar, language, philology and calligraphy. He painted on canvas, and was especially passionate about literature. He taught himself poetry, its systems, transmitters and meters.
Among Ṣafadī’s many teachers from Safad, Damascus, Cairo and Aleppo were:
The Internet Archive hosts a copy of كتاب الوافي بالوفيات (Kitab Al-Wafi Bi-Al-Wafayat) at https://archive.org/details/FP49931.
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