Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad

Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad
Born6 March 1145
Died8 November 1234
NationalityKurdish
Occupation(s)Historian, Jurist, Scholar
Academic work
EraMedieval Islamic Period
Main interestsBiography of Saladin, Islamic Law
Notable works
  • Al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya (The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin)
  • The Refuge of Judges from the Ambiguity of Judgements
  • The Proofs of Judgments
  • The Epitome
  • The Virtues of the Jihad
First volume of the Vita et res gestae Sultani, almalichi alnasiri, Saladini by "Bohadinus" (i.e. Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad). Parallel Arabic and Latin text printed in two columns. Edited and translated by Albert Schultens, published in Leiden by Samuel Luchtmans, dated 1732.

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Tamīm (Arabic: بهاء الدين ابن شداد; the honorific title "Bahā' ad-Dīn" means "splendor of the faith"; sometimes known as Bohadin or Boha-Eddyn[1]) (6 March 1145 – 8 November 1234)[2] was a 12th-century Kurdish[3] jurist, scholar and historian notable for writing a biography of Saladin whom he knew well.[4]

  1. ^ Chalmers, Alexander, ed. (1812). The General Biographic Dictionary. London: J. Nichols. p. 519.
  2. ^ ed-Din, Beha (1897). The Life of Saladin. Hanover Square, London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. pp. Xviii.
  3. ^ Iqbal, A. S. & Asif, M, “Tariq Ali’s 'The Book of Saladin': A Khaldunian Study" Global Language Review, V(IV), 1-10. 2020, page 2: “...The French historians, however, relied chiefly on the Kurdish historian Baha al-Din ibn Shaddad (1145-1234).”
  4. ^ ibn Shaddād 2002, pp. 2–4