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Abu Abdallah ibn Askar

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Ibn Askar or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Omar ibn Husain ibn Misbah ibn Askar (1529–1579) was a Moroccan historian, author of Dawhat al-Nashir li-Mahasin man kana min al-Maghrib min Ahl al-Karn al-ashir, a hagiographic dictionary, composed about the year 1575[1][2] which gives a comprehensive picture of the Jazulliya order and its offshoots.[3] Ibn Askar died in the battle of Ksar al-Kebir. (He is not be confused with the Andalusian Ibn Askar (d. 1238), author of Alam Malaqa.)

References

  1. ^ ed. M. Hajji, Rabat, 1976., translation T.H. Weir, (Edinburgh: George A. Morton 1904), The Sheikhs of Morocco
  2. ^ M. A. Cook, Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 388
  3. ^ Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 2, p. 363