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Ibn Bibi

13th century · 13th century

Ibn Bibi was a Persian historian of the Sultanate of Rum in the 13th century, a court official who served the Seljuk sultans under their Mongol overlords. His chronicle, al-Awamir al-Alaiya, completed in the 1280s, covers the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia from 1192 to 1280 and is a main source for the period, including the Seljuk expedition to Sudak in the Crimea.

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