Abū al-Fidāʾ, al-Malik al-Muʾayyad ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb b. Shādhī b. Marwān (672/1273–732/1332) was a historian, geographer and the governor of Ḥamā. His title was originally al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ and was later changed to al-Malik al-Muʾayyad (Ibn Shākir, 1/184). He is best known in the West, however, by the kunya Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (Krachkovskiĭ, 386). He was an Ayyūbid, his ancestor Shāhanshāh being the brother of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. Ayyūb (Saladin). He was bor…