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This article is about the geographer and historian who should not be confused with the 14th Century Shafi scholar Ibn Kathir.Abu al-Fida (Arabic: أبو الفداء) or Abul-Fida’ al-Ḥamawi or Abul Fida Ismail Hamvi (fully Abu Al-fida’ Isma’il Ibn ‘ali ibn Mahmud Al-malik Al-mu’ayyad ‘imad Ad-din (also transliterated Abulfeda Abu Alfida and other ways)) (November 1273 – October 27 1331) was a Kurdish historian geographer and local governor of Hamāh.