Musabbiḥī, 977-1029

المسبحي، محمد بن عبيد الله، 977-1029

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Musabbihi, al-; Abu ʻUbayd Allah Muhammad b. Abiʼl-Qasim al-Harrani al-Musabbihi al-Katib; historian; born 0977 in Fustat, Egypt; held the military title of amir, or commander, as a governor of provinces; it is known that many texts, most probably including those of al-Musabbihi, were destroyed after Sunni control of Egypt was reestablished (1171); his texts were a major source for a leading Mamluk Cairo historian, al-Maqrizi (1334-1442), who took a particular interest in the Fatimid period; died 1070 in Fustat, Egypt)

found: al-Juzʼ al-arbaʻūn min Akhbār Miṣr, 2014- :volume 1, title page (للمسبحي، الأمير المختار عز الملك محمد بن عبيد الله بن أحمد المتوفى سنة 420 هـ = lil-Musabbiḥī, al-Amīr al-Mukhtār ʻIzz al-Mulk Muḥammad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-mutawaffá sanat 420 H [that is, 1029 C.E.]) volume 1, page 14 of introduction (الأمير المختار عز الملك محمد بن أبي القاسم عبيد الله بن أحمد بن إسماعيل بن عبد العزيز المسبحي = al-Amīr al-Mukhtār ʻIzz al-Mulk Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Musabbiḥī) volume 1, page 15 of the introduction (born Sunday, 10 Rajab 366 A.H./24 February 976 C.E. [that is, 4 March 977 C.E.]) volume 1, page 17 of introduction (died in Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 420 A.H. [that is, April or May 1029 C.E.])