Abū l-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh
Date of Birth: Unknown; probably mid-11th century
Place of Birth: Unknown; probably Iran or further east
Date of Death: Unknown; probably early 12th century
Place of Death: Unknown; possibly Ghazna
Biography
What little we know of Abū l-Maʿālī is gained from snippets in the introduction to his Bayān al-adyān, as there is no mention of him in biographical or bibliographical dictionaries. He see…