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{{Short description|Egyptian polymath and mathematician (1355/56–1418)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Al-Qalqashandi
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| birth_name = Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ‘Abd Allāh al-Fazārī al-Shāfiʿī
| birth_date = 1355 or 1356
| birth_place = [[Nile Delta]], Egypt
| death_date = 1418
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| nationality = Egyptian
| occupation = Encyclopedist, Polymath, Mathematician
| notable_works = ''Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshá''
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'''Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ‘Abd Allāh [[Banu Fazara|al-Fazārī]] al-Shāfiʿī'''{{sfn|Bosworth|1978|p=509}} better known by the [[Nisba (onomastics)|epithet]] '''al-Qalqashandī''' ({{lang-ar|شهاب الدين أحمد بن علي بن أحمد القلقشندي}}; 1355 or 1356 – 1418), was a medieval [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[encyclopedist]], [[polymath]] and [[Islamic mathematics|mathematician]]. A native of the [[Nile Delta]], he became a Scribe of the Scroll (''Katib al-Darj''), or clerk of the [[Mamluk]] chancery in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. His [[magnum opus]] is the voluminous administrative encyclopedia ''Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshá''.
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