al-Kutubi

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Shākir al-Dārānī al-Dimashqī al-Kutubī (1287–1363) was a Syrian merchant and historian.

Born into a poor family in Dārayyā in 1287, al-Kutubī later moved to Damascus and entered the book trade, where he made a fortune.

[2] He spent his most of his life in Damascus and never held an official position either civic or religious.

The ʿUyūn al-tawārīkh (The Historical Springs) is a general history of the Islamic world from the first year of the Hegira (AD 622–623) until 1359.

[1] The Fawāt al-wafayāt (Beyond the Obituaries) is a supplement to the biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikān.