1309–1335), known as Ibn al-Dawādārī (Egyptian Arabic: ابن الدواداري), was a historian from Mamluk Egypt.
Ibn al-Dawādārī claims to have begun taking notes for his history in 1309 and to have moved with his father to Damascus.
[1] The one for which he is most famous is the Kanz al-durar wa-jāmiʿ al-ghurar ('Treasure of Pearls and the Collection of Shining Objects'), an abridgement in nine parts of a longer universal history entitled Durar al-tījān.
[2] The entirety of Kanz has been published in nine separate volumes between the years 1960 and 1994 at Cairo as Die Chronik des Ibn ad-Dawadari, part of the German series Quellen zur Geschichte des islamischen Ägyptens:[7] Ibn al-Dawādārī has valuable information on the Fatimids[2] and is "one of the most interesting historians" of the Baḥrī dynasty.
His writing style is more personal, "spiced with anecdotes" and, for the earlier periods, dependent in part on popular legends.