-Rahim b. Yunus, d. 347;
Mahommed b. Yusuf al-Kindi, d. somewhat later; Ibn Zulaq, d. 387; 'Izz
al-Mulk Mahommed al-Musabbihi, d. 420; Mahommed b. Salamah al-Qoda'i,
d. 454; Jamal al-din 'Ali al-Qifti, d. 568; Jamal al-din al-Halabi, d.
623; 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, d. 629; Mahommed b. 'Abd al-Aziz
al-Idrisi (history of Upper Egypt), d. 649; his son Ja'far (history of
Cairo), d. 676; Ibn Sa'id, d. 685; Ibrahim b. Wasif Shah; Ibn
al-Mutawwaj, d. 703; Mahommed b. Dani'al, d. 710; Ja'far b. Tha'lab
Kamal al-din al-Adfu'i (history of Upper Egypt), d. 730; 'Abd al-Qarun
al-Halabi, d. 735; Ibn Habib, d. 779; Ibn Duqmaq, d. 790; Ibn Tughan,
Shihab al-din al-Auhadi, d. 790; Ibn al-Mulaqqin, d. 806; Maqrizi,
Taqiyy al-din Ahmad, d. 840; Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, d. 852;
al-Sakhawi, d. 902; Abu'l-Mahasin b. Taghribirdi, d. 874; Jalal al-din
al-Suyuti, d. 911; Ibn Zunbul al-Rammal; Ibn Iyas, d. after 928;
Mahommed b. Abi Surur, d. after 1017; Zain al-din al Karami, d. 1033;
'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti, d. after 1236. Of many of the Mameluke
sultans there are special chronicles preserved in various European and
Oriental libraries. The works of many of the authors enumerated are
topographical and biographical as well as purely historical. To these
there should be added the Survey of Egypt, called _al-tuhfah
al-saniyyah_ of Ibn Ji'an, belonging to the time of Kait Bey; the
treatise on the Egyptian constitution called _Zubdat Kashf
al-Mamalik_, by Khalil al-Zahiri, of the same period; and the
encyclopaedic work on the same subject called _Subh al-Insha_, by
al-Qalqashandi, d. 821.

Arabic poetry is in the main encomiastic and personal, and from the
beginning of the Omayyad period sovereigns and governors paid poets to
celebrate their achievements; of those of importance who are connected
with Egypt we may mention Nusaib, encomiast of 'Abd al-Aziz b. Merwan,
d. 180; the greater Nashi (Abu l-Abbas 'Abdallah), d. 293; Ibn
Tabataba, d. 345; Abu'l-Raqa'maq, encomiast of al-Mo'izz, d. 399;
Sari' al-Dila ('Ali b. 'Abd al-Wahid), encomiast of the Fatimite
al-Zahir, d. 412; Sanajat al-dauh (Mahommed b. al-Qasim), encomiast of
Hakim; 'Ali b. 'Abbad al-Iskandari, encomiast of the vizier al-Afdal,
executed by Hafiz; Ibn Qalaqis al-Iskandari, encomiast of the
Ayyubites, d. 607; Muhaddhab b. Mameti, encomiast of the Ayyubites, d.
616; Ibn Sana' al-Mulk, encomiast of the Ayyubites, d