Ali ibn al-Athir

Ali ibn al-Athir
Muslim historian
Izz ad-Dīn Abu al-Hassan Ibn al-Athīr
Title ibn al-Athir
Born 1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, Great Seljuq Empire/present-day Cizre, Turkey
Died 630 AH (1233)[1]
Maddhab Sunni
Main interests History
Works The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions
Influenced Abul Fida Ismail Hamvi

Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad,[2] better known as Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari[3](Arabic: عزالدین ابن الاثیر الجزری) (1233–1160) was a Kurdish Muslim historian from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, he was born in Jazirat Ibn Umar, Great Seljuq Empire.[4]

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Biography

He spent a scholarly life in Mosul, but often visited Baghdad. He was a Kurd,[5] therefore for a time he was with Saladin's army in Syria and later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (The Complete History). He includes some information on the Rus' people in his chronology.

Works

  • Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh: "The Complete History"
  • Al-Tārīkh al-bāhir fī al-Dawlah al-Atābakīyah bi-al-Mawṣil
  • Usd al-ghābah fi ma‘rifat al-ṣaḥābah: "The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions"
  • Al-Lubāb fī tahdhīb al-ansāb

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Fourth to Seventh century
  2. ^ Ali, the father of Hasan and son of Muhammad who was the son of Muhammad
  3. ^ Ali, height of belief, son of Athir, from Jazar
  4. ^ IBN ATHTR - Online Information article about IBN ATHTR
  5. ^ Encyclopaedic ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: A-I, Vol.1, Ed. R. Khanam, (Global Vision Publishing House, 2005), 500; "The fact was already mentioned by the Kurd Ibn al-Athir...".

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