Ibn Khallikan
| Muslim scholar Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān |
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| Title | Chief Judge |
| Born | September 22, 1211 in Irbil, Iraq |
| Died | October 30, 1282 (aged 71) in Damascus, Syria |
| Ethnicity | Kurdish |
| Region | Middle East |
| Works | Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch |
Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (Arabic: شمس الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن خلكان) (September 22, 1211 – October 30, 1282) was a 13th Century Shafi'i Islamic scholar of Kurdish origin.
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[edit] Biography
Ibn Khallikan was born in Arbil, Iraq on September 22, 1211, studied there and in Aleppo and Damascus.[1] He also studied jurisprudence at Mosul and then settled in Cairo.[2] He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.[2] Ibn Khallikan married in the year 1252.[2]
He was an assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261 when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.[1] Ibn Khallikan was removed from this position in 1271, returned to Egypt and taught there until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in the year 1278.[1] He retired from this position in 1281[2] and died in Damascus on October 30, 1282.[1]
[edit] Works
Ibn Khallikan's most renowned work is the biographical dictionary entitled Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān (Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch).[1] He began compiling this work in 1256 and continued until 1274, referencing the works of earlier scholars.[1] Deaths of Eminent Men does not include biographies of individuals already sufficiently covered, such as the Islamic Beloved Prophet Muhammad Peace And Blessings Be Upon Him and The Rightly Guided Caliphs May Allah Be Pleased With Them All.[1] This work has been translated into English by William McGuckin de Slane, (1801–1878), and is over 2,700 pages long.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Ibn Khallikān". 2010. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/280795/Ibn-Khallikan. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Ibn Khallikan". Humanistic Texts.org. http://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
[edit] Bibliography
- Ibn Khallikān. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=D9jd70CULyYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ibn+khallikan+%22biographical+dictionary,+1%22&hl=en&ei=GlMRTKSRHsXdnAeNkOmRAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. M. de Slane trans. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843.
- Ibid. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, 2. http://books.google.com/books?id=cUHmSN0g9cIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ibn+khallikan+biographical+dictionary,+2&hl=en&ei=11QRTPimJIiHnQftycCRAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Ibid. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=eeE80B81GfgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ibn+khallikan+biographical+dictionary&hl=en&ei=CVMRTNK0J8uknQfmmeyQAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Ibid. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=fqcd61rwaukC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ibn+khallikan+biographical+dictionary,+4&hl=en&ei=UlURTND-HZ7hnQf3jtmRAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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