Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿIdhārī al-Marrākushī
Date of Birth: Second half of the 13th century
Place of Birth: Maghreb
Date of Death: 1312-13 or after
Place of Death: Maghreb
Biography
Very little is known about Ibn ʿIdhārī’s life, let alone about how he acquired his vast knowledge of the history of both the eastern and western regions of the Islamic world, a subject on which he wrote two books, the one dealing with the east (Al-bayān al-mushri…