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Islamic historian and geographer (1160–1232/3) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī (Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was a 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.
Izz ad-Dīn Abū al-Hasan Ibn al-Athīr | |
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| Title | Al-Hafiz Izz ad-Din |
| Personal | |
| Born | May 12, 1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, present-day Cizre, Seljuk Empire |
| Died | AH 630 (1232/1233), Mosul, Ayyubid dynasty[1] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i[2] |
| Creed | Ash'ari[3][4] |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, History |
| Notable work(s) | The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions |
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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][11]
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).
Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar.[12] His tomb was built in the 20th century and was located in the middle of a road, after the cemetery was cleared for modernization.[13] It became a site of an erroneous legend, which identified it as a tomb of a female mystic.[14] However, the government later installed a marble stele to indicate that it was Ibn al-Athir's tomb.[15][16] His tomb was also regarded in local Yazidi folklore as being the grave of a girl who married the Emir of Mosul but died of poisoning.[17]
The tomb of Ibn al-Athir was bulldozed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014.[18]
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