Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUthmān b. Abī Bakr b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (599–665/1203–68) was a scholar of seventh/thirteenth-century Damascus. Best known for his histories Kitāb al-rawḍatayn fī akhbār al-dawlatayn al-Nūriyya wa-l-Ṣalāḥiyya (The book of the two gardens, concerning affairs of the reigns of Nūr al-Dīn b. Zangī and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. Ayyūb) and al-Dhayl ʿalā l-rawḍatayn (Sequel to The two gardens), Abū Shāma was one of the most important chroniclers of the Crusader and Ayyūbid periods in Greater Syria…