Ibn Wasil
13th century Syrian scholar and diplomat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 9th-century military adventurer, see Muhammad ibn Wasil.
Ibn Wāṣil (AD 1208–1298 [AH 604–697]) was a Syrian judge, scholar and writer. He was a courtier and diplomat of the Ayyubids and their successors, the Mamlūks. Although trained as a religious scholar, in his own time he was renowned as a logician and today is most famous as a historian, especially of the Ayyubids. He also wrote works on poetry, medicine and astronomy.