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3 unusual facts about Ibn Shaddad


Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi

It survived long after his death in Mayyafariqin, where Ibn Shaddad reported it as still extant two centuries later.

Ibn Shaddad

Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, a 12th-century jurist and biographer of Saladin.

Pervâne

According to Ibn Shaddad, when Baybars came to Syria in 1275, Pervâne played a pivotal role in dissuading him from his plans for invading the Anatolian heartland and directed him rather towards raids in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, persuading him to leave the territories of his sultanate to the following year.



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