Ali ibn al-Athir

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Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, better known as Ali 'izz al-Din Ibn al- Athir al-Jazari (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 Jazirat Ibn Umar in Kurdistan According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, he was Kurdish .

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

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

Notes

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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