Ibrahim ibn Bali

Ibrahim ibn Bali was a 15th-century Mamluk official and writer from Aintab who authored the Turkish Hikmetname in 1488. He served Qaitbay as his ambassador to Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. He claimed to be a friend of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman and attended his funeral in Damietta. His contains 12573 bayts, which he claimed to be 13000. He dedicated his work to Qaitbay. In his Hikmatnama, he was at an old age and wanted to author a Fetihname (declaration of victory), which remains undiscovered.