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For other members of the family, see Ibn Athir.
Izz ad-Dīn Abū al-Hasan Ibn al-Athīr
TitleAl-Hafiz
Izz ad-Din
Personal
Born1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, Cizre, Turkey
DiedAH 630 (1232/1233), Mosul, Modern-day country Iraq[3]
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[1]
CreedAsh'ari[2]
Main interest(s)Hadith, History
Notable work(s)The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī (Template:Lang-ar) lived 1160–1233) was an Arab[4]. > 

was a renowned Hadith expert, Historian, and Biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family.[5] 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[6] of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr,[7][8] who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr.[9][10]

He was the brother of Majd ad-Dīn and Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, often visited Baghdad and for a time traveled with Saladin'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). He died in the city of Mosul.

Modern age

According to Reuters, his tomb was desecrated in Mosul by members of the al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014.[11]

Works

  • Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh (الكامل في التاريخ): "The Complete History"; 11 volumes[12]
  • al-Usd al-ghābah fi ma‘rifat al-ṣaḥābah: "The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions"
  • Jami' al-Usul fi Ahadeth ar-Rasul, a massive collection of Hadith (14 large volumes).[13]
  • n-Nihayatu fi Gharib al-Hadith wa al-Athar, a classical work on Gharib branch of Hadith terminology where Al-Suyuti said: "This is the best books of rare terms (ghareeb), the most complete, best known and most widely used."[14]
  • Al-Qawl al-Jamil fi 'Ilm al-Jarh wa at-Ta'dil
  • Al-Tārīkh al-bāhir fī al-Dawlah al-Atābakīyah bi-al-Mawṣil
  • Al-Lubāb fī tahdhīb al-ansāb

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Majd al-Din al-Mubarak bin Muhammad, Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari. الشافي شرح مسند الشافعي 1-3 ج3. Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah. p. 612.
  2. ^ "List of Ash'ari & Maturidi scholars". marefa.org.
  3. ^ Fourth to Seventh century
  4. ^ a. Historiography of the Ayyubid and Mamluk epochs, Donald P. Little, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol.1, ed. M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 415.
    b. Ibn al-Athir, The A to Z of Islam, ed. Ludwig W. Adamec, (Scarecrow Press, 2009), 135.
    c. Peter Partner, God of Battles: Holy wars of Christianity and Islam, (Princeton University Press, 1997), 96.
    d. Venice and the Turks, Jean-Claude Hocquet, Venice and the Islamic world: 828–1797, edited by Stefano Carboni, (Editions Gallimard, 2006), 35 n17.
    e. Marc Ferro, Colonization: A Global History, (Routledge, 1997), 6.
    f. Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna, (Praeger Publishers, 2000), 69.
  5. ^ Andersson, Tobias (16 October 2018). Early Sunnī Historiography A Study of the Tārīkh of Khalīfa B. Khayyāṭ. Brill. p. 62. ISBN 9789004383173.
  6. ^ Kamaruzaman, A.F., Jamaludin, N., Fadzil, A.F.M., 2015. [Ibn Al-Athir’s Philosophy of History in Al-Kamil Fi Al-Tarikh https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281910057_Ibn_Al-Athir's_Philosophy_of_History_in_Al-Kamil_Fi_Al-Tarikh]. Asian Social Science 11(23).
  7. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P. 1991. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ibn al-athir.
  8. ^ Donner, Fred McGraw. “The Bakr B. Wā'il Tribes and Politics in Northeastern Arabia on the Eve of Islam.” Studia Islamica, no. 51, 1980, pp. 5–38. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1595370.
  9. ^ Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger. 1995. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3 Southern Europe. Routledge. P 190.
  10. ^ Canard, M., Cahen, Cl., Yinanç, Mükrimin H., and Sourdel-Thomine, J. ‘Diyār Bakr’. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Ed. P. Bearman et al. Brill Reference Online. Web. 16 Nov. 2019. Accessed on 16 November 2019.
  11. ^ Isra' al-Rubei'i. "Iraqi forces ready push after Obama offers advisers." Reuters, June 20, 2014.[1]
  12. ^ Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh (Arabic)
  13. ^ "JAMI' AL-USUL FI AHADETH AR-RASUL - IBN ATHIR (TAHQIQ AL-ARNAOUT)". sifatusafwa.com.
  14. ^ "AN-NIHAYATU FI GHARIB AL-HADITH WA AL-ATHAR - IBN ATHIR". sifatusafwa.com.
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