Life

Ibn Nubātah (full name Ǧamāl ad-Dīn / Šihāb ad-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan an-Nubātah al-Fāriqī al-Ḥuḏāqī al-Miṣrī) was an Arabic poet and intellectual of the Mamluk period. He was born in Cairo in 1287 as the son of a hadith scholar. Already in his youth he was interested in poetry and began to compose short poems. In 1316 he left Cairo for Damascus, where he settled and lived until 1360, except for short stays in Hama and Aleppo. In 1360 the Sultan an-Nāṣir Ḥasan invited him to resettle in Cairo. Ibn Nubātah died there, in the hospital of al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn, on October 13, 1366 (7th Ṣafar 768 H).

See also Thomas Bauer, “Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (686-768/1287-1366): Life and Works. Part 1: The Life of Ibn Nubātah”, in: Mamlūk Studies Review 12, no. 1 (2008): 1-35.