Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad,[2] better known as Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari[3](Arabic: عزالدین ابن الاثیر الجزری) (1233–1160) was a Kurdish[4][5][6] muslim historian from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, he was born in Jazirat Ibn Umar, Great Seljuq Empire.[7]
[edit] Biography
He spent a scholarly life in Mosul, but often visited Baghdad. He was a Kurd, therefore for a time he was with Saladin's army in Syria and later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (The Complete History). He includes some information on the Rus' people in his chronology.
- Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh: "The Complete History"
- Al-Tārīkh al-bāhir fī al-Dawlah al-Atābakīyah bi-al-Mawṣil
- Usd al-ghābah fi ma‘rifat al-ṣaḥābah: "The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions"
- Al-Lubāb fī tahdhīb al-ansāb
[edit] See also
- ^ Fourth to Seventh century
- ^ Ali, the father of Hasan and son of Muhammad who was the son of Muhammad
- ^ Ali, height of belief, son of Athir, from Jazar
- ^ Ali Ibn al- Athir al-Jazari (1160 - 1233) was a Kurdish-Islamic historian.
- ^ al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by 12th Century Kurdish historian Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari
- ^ [http://comops.org/article/126.pdf The Kurdish historian Ibn al-Athir alJazari (d. 1233) reports that Tariq found Toledo abandoned and “installed there Jews, together with a certain number of his soldiers.]
- ^ IBN ATHTR - Online Information article about IBN ATHTR
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1160 |
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