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History Of Damascus (book)
The History of Damascus ( ar, تاريخ دمشق, translit=Tarikh Dimashq) is a major classical Islamic encyclopedic work and is considered the largest biographical dictionary produced in history by a medieval Muslim historian, Ibn Asakir. Description The History of Damascus, it is considered one of the largest and most important books in the history of Islam. In it, the author dealt with the history of the city of Damascus, and spoke about the biographies of notables and narrators and their narrations from everyone who lived, neighboring, or passed through the city of Damascus. It was not only limited to the assessment of narrators of hadith, Ilm ar-Rijal, but also includes historical and political figures. When it comes to Islamic figures, Ibn Asakir tried to collect everything that has been said about that figure, true or false, with full chain of narration. It also contains a huge collection of Arabic poems. It is an encyclopaedic work in 80 volumes. The history of Damas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Asakir
Ibn Asakir ( ar-at, ابن عساكر, Ibn ‘Asākir; 1105–c. 1176) was a Syrian Sunni Islamic scholar, who was one of the most renowned experts on Hadith and Islamic history in the medieval era. and a disciple of the Sufi mystic Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi. Ibn Asakir is the pre-eminent figure of the Asakir dynasty, whose family members occupied the most prominent positions as judges and scholars of the Shafi'i school of the Sunni law in Damascus for almost two centuries. Name and Titles His full name was ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn `Abd Allāh, Thiqat al-Dīn, Abū al-Qasim, known as Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari (الحافظ المورخ علی بن الحسن بن ھبۃ اللہ بن عبداللہ بن الحسین الدمشقی الشافعی). Ibn Asakir is often given the honorary epithets such as Al-Imam, al-'Allamah, al-Hafidh al-Kabeer, Fakhruddin, al-Mujawwid, Muhaddith ash-Sham. Life Born in Damascus, during the reign of ''atabeg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean Sea. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Albanians, and Greeks. Religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Yazidis. The capital and largest city of Syria is Damascus. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th-century Arabic Books
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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 member of the retinue of Saladin, the Kurdish general who captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders and massively reduced European holdings in the Levant, leaving the Principality of Antioch and County of Tripoli much reduced and only a few cities on the coast to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Format of ''The Complete History'' ''The Complete History'' is organised into several volumes, years, and subsections. Each volume is divided in chronological order into years. For instance, the year 491 AH starts "then the year one and ninety and four hundred began." Each year has several sections committed to major events, which are not necessarily in chronological order. These subsections may include the deaths, births, and dynastic succession of major stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Nishapur (book)
History of Nishapur is an encyclopedia written in Arabic by Hakim Nishapuri (933 - 1014 CE) for an introduction of the city and the quarter of Nishapur in Khorasan Khorasan may refer to: * Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan * Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira .... It also introduces its reader to the scientists and the people of importance in Nishapur of the Middle Ages. Only a small part of it remains and its original version is lost. This book has been translated to Persian by Mohammad Ibn Hossein Khalife Nishapuri (). References Geography books History books about Iran Encyclopedias History of Nishapur Khorasan Nishapur {{iran-hist-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Baghdad (book)
''History of Baghdad'' ( ar, تاريخ بغداد, translit=Tarikh Baghdad) is a major classical Islamic biographical dictionary written by the medieval Muslim historian, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Description This immense encyclopedic work contains more than 7,831 biographies of the lives of scholars, thinkers, aristocrats, famous men and women connected to Baghdad from the earliest period of the city. It was compiled according to the method of hadith scholars, and included many benefits in it. In this book, the author includes previous lost manuscripts that explain the history of Baghdad. Thus al-Baghdadi's work is considered extremely valuable for preserving the titles of these books and the names of their authors, especially since there is no other reference than Tarikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad). Nonetheless, it served as a reference for verifying the reliability of Hadith transmitters and also a valuable source for saints. The author explains the city in details during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sunni Books
This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim. The Qur'an and its translations (in English) :# ''The Meaning of the Glorious Koran'' by Marmaduke Pickthall :# '' The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary'' by Abdullah Yusuf Ali :# ''The Qur'an: A New Translation'' by Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem :# ''The Clear Quran: A Thematic English Translation'' by Dr. Mustafa Khattab :# ''The Holy Qur'án (The treasure of faith)'' by Professor Shah Faridul Haque :# ''Bridges' Translation of the Ten Qira'at of the Noble Qur'an'' by Fadel Soliman Hadith Six Canonical Books of Hadith Collection :# '' Sahih Bukhari'' of Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 870 A.D. / 256 AH) :# '' Sahih Muslim'' of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 875 A.D. / 261 AH) :# '' Sunan Ibn Majah'' of Ibn Majah (d. 887 A.D. / 273 AH) :# '' Sunan Abu Dawud'' of Abu Dawood (d. 889 A.D. / 275 AH) :# ''Jami` ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Mundhiri
Abū Muhammad 'Abd al-'Azim b. 'Abd al-Qawi Zaki al-Din al-Mundhiri ( ar-at, المنذري), commonly known as Al-Mundhiri was a classical Islamic Sunni scholar, Shafi'i jurist, hadith specialist, historian, the muhaqqiq (researcher), and an expert in the Arabic language. He is regarded in his time as the greatest scholar of hadith. Biography Al-Mundhiri was of Syrian origin but was born in Fustat, Egypt in the year of the 1st Sha'ban 581 corresponding to 28 October 1185. He was well-versed in Islamic etiquette and law and had memorised the Qur'an. He started studying the sciences of hadith and excelled in it. He studied under a number of hadith scholars with the most prominent being Al-Hafiz Abu al-Hasan `Ali ibn al-Mufaddal al-Maqdisi the famous pupil of Abu Tahir al-Silafi. He stayed with him for a while and completed his education with him. After he completed his studies, he began travelling to peruse further knowledge and visited many cities such as Mecca, Medina, Damascus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Khallikan
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān) ( ar, أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 1211 – 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a 13th century Shafi'i Islamic scholar who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, ''Wafayāt al-Aʿyān wa-Anbāʾ Abnāʾ az-Zamān'' ('Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch'). Life Ibn Khallikān was born in Erbil on September 22, 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), into a respectable family that claimed descent from Barmakids, an Iranian dynasty of Balkhi origin. Other sources describe him as Kurdish. His primary studies took him from Arbil, to Aleppo and to Damascus, before he took up jurisprudence in Mosul and then in Cairo, where he settled. He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian. An early biographer described him as "a pious man, virtuous, and learned; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi
Zahir al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Zayd-i Bayhaqi ( fa, ظهیرالدین ابوالحسن علی بن زید بیهقی; c. 1097 – 1169) also known as Ibn Fondoq (ابن فندق) was an Iranian polymath and historian of Arab descent. He is the author of ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq''. Ancestry Bayhaqi was a descendant of Khuzaima ibn Thabit (died 657), a companion of Muhammad. Most of his forefathers were either judges or Imams. Biography Bayhaqi was born in Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran, the main city of the Bayhaq district, where his father’s estates were located. In 1114, Bahyaqi along with his father visited Omar Khayyam, the famous Persian mathematician and astronomer, in Nishapur and while there Bayhaqi began his education in literature and science. He moved to Marv to complete his studies in Islamic jurisprudence by 1123. He returned to Nishapur in c.1127 where according to Yaqut al-Hamawi, his studies were "interrupted by marriage". Bayhaqi became the qadi of Bayhaq through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarikh-i Bayhaq
''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' ( fa, تاریخ بیهق) is a book on the history of Bayhaq, written in the Persian language in the 12th century, by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi. Contents The ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' contains invaluable information about the Eastern parts of Iran during Ghaznavid and Seljuk eras. Its most important aspect is that it is based on earlier sources which are no longer available. Bayhaqi stated the ''Tarik-i Bayhaq'' was written using an earlier history of Bayhaq and the ''Târîkh `Ulamâ' Ahl Naysabûr'' by Al-Hakim Nishapuri. Bayhaq makes note of Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi's work, ''Tarikh-i Bayhaqi'', stating it consisted of 30 volumes and that he had seen partial sets in Sarakhs and Nishapur, but never complete sets. Ahmad ibn Mohammad Khwafi states the ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq'' was completed in c.1150/544 AH during the reign of Sultan Sanjar of Seljuk Empire, but according to Bayhaqi, the book was completed in c.1168/563 in Sheshtomad. Yaqut al-Hamawi and Fasih Khafi Fasih ( a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Taghribirdi
Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi ( ar, جمال الدين يوسف بن الأمير سيف الدين تغري بردي), or Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrī-Birdī, or Ibn Taghribirdi (2 February 1411— 5 June 1470; 813–874 Hijri) was an Islamic historian born in the 15th century during the Mamluk rule. He studied under al-Ayni and al-Maqrizi, two of the leading Cairene historians and scholars of the day. His most famous work is a multi-volume chronicle of Egypt and the Mamluk sultanate called ''al-Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira''. His style is annalistic and gives precise dates for most events; this format makes it clear that Ibn Taghribirdi had privileged access to the sultans and their records. The name "Taghribirdi" is cognate to modern Turkish "Tanrıverdi" and means god-given in Turkic languages. Works * ''Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah'' (). Chronicle of period from the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
