Muḥammad ibn al-Waḥīd

Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf ibn Yūsuf al-Kātib al-Zarʿī al-Miṣrī (Ibn al-Waḥid) was born in Damascus in 1249-1250. He traveled to Baalbek and then Baghdad, where he studied with Yāqūt (1179-1229). He made many copies of the Qur'an, including one seven-volume Qur'an for the Mamluk sultan Rukn al-Dīn Baybars (r. 1260-1277). The MFA Qur'an folio attributed to Ibn al-Waḥid comes from this well-known manuscript. Ibn al-Waḥid also composed poetry and was an accomplished linguist. He died in 1311 in Cairo.