Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-
Dīn
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In Islamic terminology, the word refers to the way of life Muslims ...
Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī ( ar, علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري) lived 1160–1233) was an
Arab
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or
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
historian and biographer who wrote in
Arabic
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and was from the
Ibn Athir Ibn Athīr is the family name of three brothers, all famous in Arabic literature, born at Jazīrat ibn Umar (today's ''Cizre'' nowadays in south-eastern Turkey) in upper Mesopotamia. The ibn al-Athir brothers belonged to the Shayban lineage of the ...
family. At the age of twenty-one he settled with his father in Mosul to continue his studies, where he devoted himself to the study of history and Islamic tradition.
Biography
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the Shayban lineage of the large and influential Arab tribe
Banu Bakr, who lived across upper
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the ...
, and gave their name to the city of
Diyar Bakr.
He was the brother of
Majd ad-Dīn and Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in
Mosul
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, often visited
Baghdad
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and for a time traveled with
Saladin
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سهلاحهدین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
's army in
Syria. He later lived in
Aleppo and
Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, ''al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh'' (''
The Complete History
''The Complete History'' (, ''al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh)'', is a classic Islamic history book written by Ali ibn al-Athir. Composed in ca. 1231AD/628AH, it is one of the most important Islamic historical works. Ibn al-Athir was a contemporary and memb ...
''). He died in the city of Mosul.
Modern age
According to Reuters, his tomb was
desecrated
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Detail
Many consider acts of desecration to ...
in Mosul by members of the
al-Qaeda offshoot the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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(ISIL) in June 2014.
Works
* ''
Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh'' (الكامل في التاريخ): "
The Complete History
''The Complete History'' (, ''al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh)'', is a classic Islamic history book written by Ali ibn al-Athir. Composed in ca. 1231AD/628AH, it is one of the most important Islamic historical works. Ibn al-Athir was a contemporary and memb ...
"; 11 volumes
Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (Arabic)
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* ''Al-Tārīkh al-bāhir fī al-Dawlah al-Atābakīyah bi-al-Mawṣil''
* '' al-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
* List of Muslim historians
:''This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians.''
The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the time of ...
* List of Islamic scholars
* Ibn Fadlan
* Ibn Rustah
Ahmad ibn Rustah Isfahani ( fa, احمد ابن رسته اصفهانی ''Aḥmad ibn Rusta Iṣfahānī''), more commonly known as Ibn Rustah (, also spelled ''Ibn Rusta'' and ''Ibn Ruste''), was a tenth-century Persian explorer and geographer ...
* Varangian
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" Online Etymo ...
Notes
External links
Ibn al-Athīr's Accounts of the Rūs: A Commentary and Translation
by William E. Watson from Canadian/American Slavic Studies
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060708214517/http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/islhist.html
* http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/rijal.html
* Kurds and Kurdistan Encyclopaedia of Islam.
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1160 births
1233 deaths
Arab Muslim historians of Islam
Arab biographers
12th-century Iranian historians
13th-century Arabic writers
13th-century Iranian historians
Khazar studies
Kurdish historians
Kurdish Muslims
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