Ibn Sibat

Ḥamza ibn Aḥmad ibn Sibāṭ al-Faqīh al-ʿĀlayhī (Arabic: حمزة بن أحمد بن سباط الفقيه) (died 1520) was a Druze historian and a scribe of the Buhturid emirs of Mount Lebanon.

[1] Hamza was based in Aley in the Gharb area southeast of Beirut in Mount Lebanon.

[2] His father Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Salih (d. 1482) was a disciple of the reformist Druze religious leader al-Sayyid Abd Allah al-Tanukhi and the imam of his mosque in Abeih.

Part of his work chronicled the Tanukh's history, before and after their acceptance and propagation of the Druze doctrine in the early 11th century.

Ibn Sibat continued the history of Mount Lebanon for the rest of the 15th century through the first years of Ottoman rule, which began in 1516.