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Ibn Khallikan
Muslim historian (1211–1282) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān[a][3] (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch (Arabic: وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان, romanized: wafayāt al-ʾaʿyān wa-ʾanbāʾ ʾabnāʾ al-zamān).[4] Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.[5]
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Life
Ibn Khallikān was born in Erbil on 22 September 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), he was of Arabian origins[6] from an Arab family[7] that claimed descent from Barmakids.[8]
His primary studies took him from Erbil, to Aleppo and to Damascus,[9] before he took up jurisprudence in Mosul and then in Cairo, where he settled.[10] He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.[10] An early biographer described him as "a pious man, virtuous, and learned; amiable in temper, in conversation serious and instructive. His exterior was highly prepossessing, his countenance handsome and his manners engaging."[11]
He married in 1252[10] and was assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.[9] He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278.[9] He retired in 1281[10] and died in Damascus on 30 October 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).[9]
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Notes
- Also known as Abū ʾl-ʿAbbās S̲h̲ams al-Dīn al-Barmakī al-Irbilī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī (Arabic: أبو العباس شمس الدين البرمكي الأربلي الشافعي)
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