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Hamdan Ibn Abd Al-Rahim Al-Atharibi
Abū al-Fawāris Ḥamdān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Athāribī ( – 1147) was a Syrian Muslim physician, diplomat, administrator, poet and historian who wrote a wrote a ''History of the Franks'', an early account of the Crusades from a Muslim perspective., with al-Atharibi's fragments translated at 15–19. Life Most of what is known about al-Atharibi's life is drawn from Ibn al-Adim's , a biographical dictionary of Aleppo. It includes excerpts of his poetry. He was born around 1067 in the village of Ma'arat Atarib. The family later relocated to the larger village of Atarib. After Atharib came under Frankish (i.e., Crusader states, Crusader) rule around 1111, al-Atharibi administered some lands on behalf of the conquerors before having his wealth confiscated. Al-Atharibi moved to Aleppo probably in the late 1110s. He studied under Abu al-Hasan ibn Abi Jarada, Ibn Abi Jarada. He also studied astronomy, grammar, history, mathematics and medicine. Yaqut describes him as a physician. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding territories from Muslim rule. Beginning with the First Crusade, which culminated in the Siege of Jerusalem (1099), capture of Jerusalem in 1099, these expeditions spanned centuries and became a central aspect of European political, religious, and military history. In 1095, after a Byzantine request for aid,Helen J. Nicholson, ''The Crusades'', (Greenwood Publishing, 2004), 6. Pope Urban II proclaimed the first expedition at the Council of Clermont. He encouraged military support for List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, AlexiosI Komnenos and called for an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Across all social strata in Western Europe, there was an enthusiastic response. Participants came from all over Europe and had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
