Izz ad-Dīn Abū al-Hasan Ibn al-Athīr | |
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Al-Hafiz Izz ad-Din |
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Born | May 12, 1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, present-day Cizre, Seljuk Empire |
Died | AH 630 (1232/1233), Mosul, Ayyubid dynasty [4] |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Islamic golden age |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i [1] |
Creed | Ash'ari [2] [3] |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, History |
Notable work(s) | The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions |
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Background |
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad- Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī ( Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was a Hadith expert, historian, and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family. [5] At the age of twenty-one he settled with his father in Mosul to continue his studies, where he devoted himself to the study of history and Islamic tradition.
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the Shayban lineage [6] of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr, [7] [8] who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr. [9] [10] [11] He is also described to have been of Kurdish origin. [12]
He was the brother of Majd ad-Dīn and Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, often visited Baghdad and for a time traveled with Saladin's army in Syria. He later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh ( The Complete History).
Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar. [13] His tomb was built in the 20th century and was located in the middle of a road, after the cemetery was cleared for modernization. [14] It became a site of an erroneous legend, which identified it as a tomb of a female mystic. [15] However, the government later installed a marble stele to indicate that it was Ibn al-Athir's tomb. [16] [17] His tomb was also regarded in local Yazidi folklore as being the grave of a girl who married the Emir of Mosul but died of poisoning. [18]
The tomb of Ibn al-Athir was bulldozed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014. [19]
'Ali ibn al-Athir 106 The Sunni historian and Ash'ari theologian Abū al-Hasan 'Izz al-Dīn 'Alī ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karīm ibn 'Abd al-Wāhid al-Jazarī al-Shaybānī was born in Cizre (Turkey) in 555/1160 and was of Arab descent.
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Izz ad-Dīn Abū al-Hasan Ibn al-Athīr | |
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Title |
Al-Hafiz Izz ad-Din |
Personal | |
Born | May 12, 1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, present-day Cizre, Seljuk Empire |
Died | AH 630 (1232/1233), Mosul, Ayyubid dynasty [4] |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Islamic golden age |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i [1] |
Creed | Ash'ari [2] [3] |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, History |
Notable work(s) | The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions |
Muslim leader | |
Influenced by | |
Influenced |
Part of a series on |
Ash'arism |
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Background |
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad- Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī ( Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was a Hadith expert, historian, and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family. [5] At the age of twenty-one he settled with his father in Mosul to continue his studies, where he devoted himself to the study of history and Islamic tradition.
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the Shayban lineage [6] of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr, [7] [8] who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr. [9] [10] [11] He is also described to have been of Kurdish origin. [12]
He was the brother of Majd ad-Dīn and Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, often visited Baghdad and for a time traveled with Saladin's army in Syria. He later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh ( The Complete History).
Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar. [13] His tomb was built in the 20th century and was located in the middle of a road, after the cemetery was cleared for modernization. [14] It became a site of an erroneous legend, which identified it as a tomb of a female mystic. [15] However, the government later installed a marble stele to indicate that it was Ibn al-Athir's tomb. [16] [17] His tomb was also regarded in local Yazidi folklore as being the grave of a girl who married the Emir of Mosul but died of poisoning. [18]
The tomb of Ibn al-Athir was bulldozed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014. [19]
'Ali ibn al-Athir 106 The Sunni historian and Ash'ari theologian Abū al-Hasan 'Izz al-Dīn 'Alī ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karīm ibn 'Abd al-Wāhid al-Jazarī al-Shaybānī was born in Cizre (Turkey) in 555/1160 and was of Arab descent.
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