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] (1160 – 1233) was an Arab Muslim historian born in Cizre, a town in present-day Şırnak province in south-eastern Turkey, from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was born in Turkey Jazirat Ibn Umar [2]. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam^[4].

Biography

He spent a scholarly life in Mosul, but often visited Baghdad. 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

• The Complete History (Arabic: Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh).
• The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions (Arabic: Usud al-Ghabah fi Ma'rifah al-Sahabah).

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. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}

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.