Muhammad ibn Iyas

Muhammad ibn Iyas (1448–c.1523) was an Egyptian historian of the late Mamluk age, born and educated in Cairo and trained in Hanafi law. He belonged to a Mamluk military family.

His major work, Bada'i al-zuhur fi waqa'i al-duhur, is a universal history of Egypt that he carried down to 1522. As an eyewitness to the Ottoman invasion of 1517 and the fall of the Mamluk sultanate, he recorded the conquest in dated entries, making his chronicle a principal source for Egypt's transition from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.