Nur al-Din Ali ibn Da'ud al-Jawhari al-Sayrafi
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Nūr al-Dīn 'Alī ibn Dā'ūd al-Jawharī al-Sayrafī, whose name is variously shortened to al-Jawhari or al-Sayrafi, was a 15th-century Egyptian author and copyist who lived from 1416 to about 1495. He came from a modest background - his father was a money changer in the Mamluk bureaucracy. He was a student of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, who encouraged him to take up writing. Ali's works are the earliest examples of the late-15th-century "Cairo narrative style", which combined formal styles with colloquialisms. However, he was never successful as a writer and turned to manuscript copying in order to earn a living; he also worked as a money changer like his father in Cairo's jewellery market (hence the epithet "al-Jawhari"). He made and sold copies of al-Asqalani's works, with his own commentaries included as appendices. Ali wanted to be appointed to a senior position as a Hanafi judge, but the closest he ever got was a deputy judgeship with few responsibilities. This happened when he was 50 (so, about 1466) and was gotten "at a colleague's behest". The only source for Ali's biographical information is a "vitriolic" obituary by al-Sakhawi. Al-Sakhawi dismissed Ali's colloquial writing style as "unsophisticated" and remarked that "nothing but his personal appearance distinguished him from the populace"; he considered Ali's commentary on al-Asqalani "a blight on the great sage's treatises".
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