Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Khazraji

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khazrajī (died 1258 AD [656 AH]),^[1] also known as Ibn al-Khazrajī,^[2] was an Arab scholar and historian of the late Ayyubid period. A member of the Banū Khazraj and a native of Tlemcen, he taught ḥadīth in Alexandria.^[3] His work, which survives only in part, is based largely on that of Sibt ibn al-Jawzi. It is known by the title Taʾrīkh al-Dawlat al-Akrād wal-Atrāk ("History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire").^[2] It is arranged on a year-by-year basis and in each year a prominent jurist, poet or similar who died that year is celebrated with anecdotes.^[4] In its independent passages, it is a valuable source of Ayyubid history.^[3][2] It can be found in the manuscript Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa 695.^[3]

Editions

• Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris Abd al-Aziz al-Ansari al-Khazraji, History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire (1176–1200). Partial English translation from the Arabic with annotations by Fahmy Hafez. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1985.

Notes

1. Satō 1997, p. 43. Hafez (cited in Meho 1997, p. 54) places his death in 1309 (709).
2. Humphreys 1977, p. 398.
3. Satō 1997, p. 43.
4. Hafez, cited in Meho 1997, p. 54.

Bibliography

• Hafez, Fahmy (1999). "The Crusades and the Era of Saladin". International Journal of Kurdish Studies. 13 (1): 1–14.
• Humphreys, R. Stephen (1977). From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260. State University of New York Press.
• Meho, Lokman I. (1997). The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press.
• Satō, Tsugitaka (1997). State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, Muqtaʿs and Fallahun. E. J. Brill.