Ali ibn al-Athir

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-Islamic historian^[4][5] from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, he was born in Jazirat Ibn Umar, Great Seljuq Empire.^[6]

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.

Works

• 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

See also

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• List of Muslim historians
• List of Islamic scholars
• Ibn Athir
• Ibn Fadlan
• Ibn Rustah
• Varangian

Notes

1. ^ Fourth to Seventh century
2. ^ Ali, the father of Hasan and son of Muhammad who was the son of Muhammad
3. ^ Ali, height of belief, son of Athir, from Jazar
4. ^ al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by 12th Century Kurdish historian Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari
5. ^ [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.]
6. ^ IBN ATHTR - Online Information article about IBN ATHTR

External links

• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041903
• Ibn al-Athīr's Accounts of the Rūs: A Commentary and Translation by William E. Watson from Canadian/American Slavic Studies
• http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/islhist.html
• http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/rijal.html
• Kurds and Kurdistan, Encyclopaedia of Islam.

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