Ḥamza ibn Aḥmad ibn Sibāṭ al-Faqīh al-ʿĀlayhī (Arabic:حمزة بن أحمد بن سباط الفقيه) (died 1520) was aDruze historian and a scribe of theBuhturid emirs ofMount Lebanon.^[1]

Hamza was based inAley in the Gharb area southeast ofBeirut in Mount Lebanon.^[2] His father Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Salih (d. 1482) was a disciple of the reformist Druze religious leaderal-Sayyid Abd Allah al-Tanukhi and theimam of his mosque inAbeih.^[2][3] Hamza was one of two sons of Shihab al-Din, the other being Zayn al-Din Abd al-Rahman (d. 1491).^[3] Like al-Sayyid al-Tanukhi and theBuhturidemirs of the Gharb, the Sibat family were descendants of theTanukh, an Arab tribe which was long established in the Gharb. Part of his work chronicled the Tanukh's history, before and after their acceptance and propagation of the Druze doctrine in the early 11th century.^[4]

Hamza chronicled the medieval history of Mount Lebanon. His work was largely based on the chronicle of the Buhturid chroniclerSalih ibn Yahya (d. 1435). Ibn Sibat continued the history of Mount Lebanon for the rest of the 15th century through the first years of Ottoman rule, which began in 1516. For the history of his own time, he relied on his personal observations.^[1] He is a principal source for the history of the DruzeMa'n dynasty of theChouf in the closing years ofMamluk rule in the 1490s through 1516 and the first interactions of the Ma'ns and the Buhturids with the Ottoman conquerors.^[5] The 17th-centuryMaronite historian and patriarchIstifan al-Duwayhi and the 19th-century Maronite historianTannus al-Shidyaq depended mainly on Hamza's chronicle for their histories of non-Maronite Mount Lebanon.^[6]

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• 1520 deaths
• 16th-century people from the Mamluk Sultanate
• 16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire
• Arab people from the Ottoman Empire
• Druze people from the Ottoman Empire
• History of the Druze
• Ottoman period in Lebanon
• People from Aley District
• Historians from the Mamluk Sultanate
• Tanukh
• Arabs from the Mamluk Sultanate

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