Al-Qifti
Ibn al - Qifti (* 1172 in Koptos, † 1248 ) was a medieval Arab historian. His most famous font called history of the scholars.
Ibn al - Qifti was born in Koptos and later kept on in Cairo, Jerusalem and Aleppo.
From 26 of his writings the title is known, however, received only two:
- The history of the scholars ( Kitab Ikhbar al-' ulama ' bi- akhbar al - Hukama ' or short Ta'rikh al - Hukama ') contains 414 biographies of physicists, philosophers and astronomers.
- The font Inbah al - ruwat ' ala al - anbah nuhat contains about 1,000 biographies of medieval Arab scholars.