Abulfeda

Geographer and leader

Lived
1273–1331

Updated September 2026

About Abulfeda

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān, better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda, was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.

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