Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Tulun

He is best known today for his autobiography and his historical writings, which covers the contemporary Ottoman conquest of Mamlūk Egypt.

[2] On his father's side, he could trace his ancestry back to a mamlūk, Khumārwayh ibn Ṭūlūn.

[1] In 1484, Ibn Ṭūlūn received a scholarship to study fiqh at the Māridāniyya madrasa.

In old age, he declined the positions of khaṭīb of the Umayyad Mosque and Ḥanafī muftī of Damascus.

The History of the Arabic Written Tradition knows of 75, but the library of Aḥmad Taymūr in Cairo may have contained 100 uncatalogued manuscripts of Ibn Ṭūlūn.