Ahmad al-Qalqashandi

Shihab ad-Din Abu al - Abbas Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad Abd Allah al - Fazari al - Qalqaschandi (Arabic شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن علي بن أحمد بن عبد الله الفزاري القلقشندي, DMG Šihāb ad - Dīn Abū ʿ Abbās Aḥmad l -. ʿ Alī b b Aḥmad ibn ʿ Abd Allāh al - Fazari al - Qalqašandī, .. well Qalqashandi; * 1355 in the Nile Delta, † July 16, 1418 ) was an Egyptian writer and scholar.

He is the author of the Subh al - a'scha / صبح الأعشى / Subh al -a ʿ SA, a fourteen volume encyclopedia in Arabic, which included a section on secret writing. This information is Taj ad-Din Ali ibn ad ibn Muhammad ath - Duraihim Tha'alibi al - Mausili (1312-1361) attributed to his treatises concerning secret writings were lost, however.

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• C. E. Bosworth: al- Ḳalḳashandī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. online