Ibn al athir biography
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Ibn Athir
Ibn Athīr is say publicly family name of triad brothers, industry famous hard cash Arabic belleslettres, born fall out Jazīrat ibn Umar[1] (today's Cizre at the present time in south-eastern Turkey) back upper Mesopotamia. The ibn al-Athir brothers belonged tackle the Shayban lineage[2] jurisdiction the thickset and forceful Arab seed Banu Bakr,[3][4] who quick across higher Mesopotamia, presentday gave their name in depth the right of Diyar Bakr.[5][6]
Brothers
[edit]Majd ad-Dīn
[edit]The eldest relative, known type Majd ad-Dīn (1149–1210), was long go to see the help of representation amir symbolize Mosul, skull was young adult earnest scholar of ritual and patois. His lexicon of traditions (Kitāb an-Ni/zdya) was in print at Port (1893), move his lexicon of coat names (Kitāb ul-Murassa) has been altered by Ferdinand Seybold (Weimar, 1896).[1]
Diyā' ad-Dīn
[edit]The youngest sibling ، ضياء الدين ، Diyā' ad-Dīn (1163–1239), served under Sultan from 1191 and his son al-Malik al-Afdal who succeeded him, served temper Egypt, Samosata, Aleppo, City and Bagdad. He was one resolve the first famous enhancive and stylistic critics countless Arabian data. His expression include:
- "Book of Analysis" or Kitab at-Tahlil (كتاب التحليل)[7] accessible by Bulaq Press create 1865 (cf. Journ
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EBN AL-AṮĪR, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
EBN AL-AṮĪR, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ b. Moḥammad Jazarī(b. Jazīrat Ebn ʿOmar [modern Cizre, in eastern Turkey] 4 Jomādā I 555/13 May 1160; d. Mosul, Šaʿbān 630/June 1233), major Islamic historian and important source for the history of Persia and adjacent areas from the Samanids to the first Mongol invasion.
Life and works. Ebn al-Aṯīr’s family were landowners and officials of the Zengid dynasty in Mosul. His elder brother, Majd-al-Dīn (d. 606/1209), was an administrator and author. His younger brother, Żīāʾ-al-Dīn (d. 637/1239), was a vizier and literary critic. There is no evidence that he himself held any official position. Writing about Ṭabarī, he mentions approvingly “his contentment with his income from a village in Ṭabarestān left him by his father” (Ebn al-Aṯīr, VIII, p. 136). Some similar arrangement may have allowed Ebn al-Aṯīr to follow his scholarly career. He studied in his home town and Mosul, and, after a pilgrimage to Mecca in 576/1181, in Baghdad. After the recovery of Jerusalem, he was for a while with Saladin in Syria. From 584/1188 until his death he alternated between Mosul, where he enjoyed the patronage of Badr-al-Dīn Loʾloʾ, and Syria, where the atabeg of Aleppo,
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- Reviewed by:
- Kiril Petkov
- kiril.petkov@uwrf.edu
Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233) might not be the one "true historian" and the most original thinker in thirteenth-century Muslim historiography, as Francesco Gabrieli once dubbed him, but he definitely stands out among his contemporaries with his sheer output as a historian. That he likely spent his long and productive life as a private person rather than serving as administrator in the house of Zanki as his family did partially accounts for this. More important, however, is Ibn al- Athir's delight in compiling and digesting sizable historical narratives, which comes through in his works. These have been, until recently, unavailable in critical modern translations (not counting the somewhat free rendering in vols. i-ii of Historiens Orientaux of the Receuil des Historiens des Croisades, 1872-87). Thanks to D. S. Richards' tireless effort and excellent scholarship, which had already made available Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad's Rare and Excellent History of Saladin and Ibn al- Athir's own Annals of the Saljuk Turks, one can now savor a lengthy extract from al-Athir's al-Kamil in a fine English translation. The volume briefly reviewed here is the first part of the segment of the work covering the period of the Crusades; the s