One of the first and most important travel accounts written about Egypt and Cairo is Ibn al-Nāsiḫ’s Miṣbāḥ al-Dayāǧī, which ranks only second after Ibn ʿUṯmān’s historically.In it, Ibn al-Nāsiḫ claims that he corrected many of the errors found in Ibn ʿUṯmān’s book and that he greatly increased the number of people he mentioned, in comparison with the only two hundred names found in .The book of Ibn al-Nāsiḫ was also an important source for later authors who wrote on the topography of the cemeteries in particular, and on the description of Cairo and Egypt in general.If some of the sources that he used were already known to us and are available today, others are still completely unknown, or did not reach us. This makes the an invaluable source for the study of topography in general, and of the cemeteries of Egypt and Cairo in particular.