Abd al Basit ibn Khalil 1490

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Abd al Basit ibn Khalil: Nayl al amal fi dhayl al-duwal (The hope of the tail of states) (1490) Egypt

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Abd al-Basit b. Khalil b. Shahin al-Malati (1440-1514AD). He was born in Malatya in Egypt. Abd al-Basit’s works that relate to the economy of the Mamluks for the period 1468AD until 1517AD are al-Rawd al-Basim fi Hawadith al-‘Umr wa al-Tarajim and Nayl al-Amal fi Dhayl al-Duwal. The tiny little details he gives about East African events are not found anywhere else.

Left as illustration only for the plague from a ms of Biruni.

Taken from: https://www.mobt3ath.com/uplode/book/book-8295.pdf

Things that happened in the year 1393

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The arrival of the messengers of Dahlak (1)

And in it the messengers of the owner of Dahlak (1) presented a gift to the sultan in it, an elephant, a giraffe, and other things

In the year 1433

Things that happened without a precise date

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For the death of the Lord of Mogadishu

-in which died the Lord of Mogadishu, Ali bin Yusuf bin Omar bin Ahmed Al-Moayad bin Muzaffar bin Mansour Shahab (2) and also Ali bin Omar al-Kathiri, lord of Tabar from Yemen

In the year 1435-6

Epidemic in Yemen and Ethiopia

And the epidemic in Yemen, and included all the countries of Ethiopia and many countries of Zanj

(1) Dahlak: island off the Eritrean coast.

(2) also found with: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Inba al-Ghumar bi Abna al-Umr (to Immerge the new generation in information) (d1448)