al-Bughtūrī, Maqrīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Maqrīn b. Muḥammad al-Bughṭūrī (b. second half of the sixth/twelfth century, d. first half of the seventh/thirteenth century) was a prominent scholar who belonged to a famous learned Ibāḍī family from Bughṭūra, in the western part of Jabal Nafūsa, in modern-day Libya. He studied with Abū Yaḥyā Tawfīq b. Yaḥyā al-Jannāwunī and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Maṣkūd (or Maṭkūd) and became one of the principal scholars who transmitted Ibāḍī traditions. In Rabīʿ II 599/December 1202-January 1203, he wrote in Ijnāwun, near Jādū, an