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Ibn al-Athir
Islamic historian and geographer (1160–1232/3) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 of Arab descent 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.
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Biography
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the Shayban lineage[6] of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr,[7][8][9] who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr.[10][11][12] He is also described to have been of Kurdish origin.[13]
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).
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Death
Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar.[14] His tomb was built in the 20th century and was located in the middle of a road, after the cemetery was cleared for modernization.[15] It became a site of an erroneous legend, which identified it as a tomb of a female mystic.[16] However, the government later installed a marble stele to indicate that it was Ibn al-Athir's tomb.[17][18] 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.[19]
The tomb of Ibn al-Athir was bulldozed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014.[20]
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Works
- Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh (الكامل في التاريخ): "The Complete History"; 11 volumes[21]
- al-Usd al-ghābah fi ma‘rifat al-ṣaḥābah: "The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions"
- 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
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