Bynames from ibn Munqidh
by Basil Dragonstrike

The following lists contain laqabs and nisbas I found in ibn Munqidh. As there are about as many definitions of the difference between a laqab and a nisba as there are writers on the subject, I have chosen to refer to such jointly as "bynames". More on this subject can be found in an excellenet article by Juliana de Luna, "Arabic Names from al-Andalus: Nickbynames by type". Note that this is not the definition of "byname" used by the SCA; the SCA uses "byname" to refer to everything other than the primary name.

Those bynames I found only in kunyas have been marked with a "K" following the name; similarly, those found only in nasabs have been marked "N". The two bynames found only in kunyas within nasabs are marked "K in N". Thus, any name element I found used as a byname is unmarked, even if also used in a kunya or nasab.

As there are not that many women mentioned in ibn Munqidh, I have put the only feminine byname first.

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al-Yamāmah {female}
al-ʻAbd
al-‘Ādil        N
al-Aḥmar        N
al-ʻAlā’        K
al-Amānah        K
al-ʻArīq        N
al-ʻAsākir        K
al-Aʻsar
al-Ashhabī
al-Ashtar
al-Athīr        N
al-Awḥad
al-Baghdādī
al-Balkhī
al-Baqāʼ        K
al-Baṣrī
al-Bawwāb        N
al-Bustī
al-Faraj        K
al-Fārisī
al-Fawāris        K
al-Find
al-Futūḥ        K in N
al-Ḥāfiẓ
al-Ghārāt        K
al-Gharīb        K
al-Ḥajj
al-Hayjā’        K
al-ʻIrāqī
al-Iṣfahāni
al-Iyādī
al-Jamālī
al-Jawzī        N
al-Jaysh        K
al-Jurjānī
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al-Kabīr
al-Khaḑir
al-Khādim
al-Khaṭīm        N
al-Kilābī
al-Kurdī
al-Maʻarrī
al-Majd        K
al-Maqrīzī
al-Mashṭūb
al-Mu’ayyad
al-Mughīth        K
al-Munīrah        N
al-Muqaddasī
al-Muqri’
al-Murhaf        K
al-Mushrif
al-Mu’taman
al-Mutawwaj        K
al-Muẓaffar
al-Numayrī
al-Qays
al-Qazwīnī
al-Qifṭī
al-Qubays        N
al-Qushayrī
al-Raydā’        K in N
al-Sallār        N
al-Sammāʻ
al-Ṣamṣām
al-Ṣiddīq
al-Ṭabarī
al-Ṭawīl
al-Ṭulayṭulī
al-Ṭūṭ
al-ʻUqāb
al-Uṣayfir        N
al-Wafā’        K
al-Zāhid
al-Zajjājī
al-Zamarrakal
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