al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Dimashqī al-Ḥalabī (), known as Ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥalabī (1310–1377CE) was a Levantine author, renowned as a poet, historian and essayist. His full name was Abū Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb al-Dimashqī al-Ḥalabī. He was born in

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in 710 AH, he grew up and died in

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. During his life he travelled to

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, the

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and

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, later writing about some of his travels.

Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli Khayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī (; June 25, 1893 – November 25, 1976) was a Syrian nationalist and poet in opposition to the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, historian, Syrian citizen and a diplomat in the service of Saudi Arabia. Career K ...

. '' al-Aʿlām''. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-ʿIlm lil-Malayyīn, Vol. 2, p. 208.

Works

* Pearls of Travels in the Land of the Turks (''Durrat al-aslāk fī dawlat al-atrāk''), written in rhyming prose (

saj' Saj' () is a form of rhymed prose defined by its relationship to and use of end-rhyme, meter, and parallelism. There are two types of parallelism in saj': ''iʿtidāl'' (rhythmical parallelism, meaning "balance") and ''muwāzana'' (qualitative m ...

) as he did in his other books, this work was dedicated to his son Zayn al-Dīn Ṭāhir. * The Breeze of the Zephyr (''Nasīm al-ṣabā''), written in the year 756 AH and arranged in thirty chapters, it covers a great variety of literary topics. * Dialogues (''al-Maqāmāt''). * The Little Garden of Anecdotes on the Names of the Caliphs and Kings of the Great Cities (Juhaynat al-akhbār fī asmāʾ al-khulafā wa-mulūk al-amṣār). * A Record of the Illustrious One in the Days of al-Mansur and His Sons (''Tadhkirat al-nabīh fī ayām al-Manṣūr wa-banīhi''). A collection of reports about Sultan

Qalawun (, – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Turkic Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt; he ruled from 1279 to 1290. He was called (, "Qalāwūn the Victorious"). After having risen in power in the Mamluk court and elite circles, Qalawun eventually hel ...

and his sons. * The Shining Star (''al-Najm al-thāqib''), on the life of the Prophet. * Rhythm and Rhyme in Memory of the Virtues of the Chosen One (''al-Muqtafā fī dhikr faḍāʾil al-Muṣṭafā''). * ''Kashf al-murūṭ'', on

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Halabi, Ibn Habib Syrian historians 14th-century Arabic-language writers Shafi'i fiqh scholars 14th-century poets 1377 deaths 1310 births Muslim writers Muslim poets Arab poets