Ibn Hisham

Ibn Hisham
Personal
Died7 May 833/13 Rabīʿ II 218
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
(Abbasid era)
RegionBasra and Egypt
Main interest(s)Prophetic biography
Notable work(s)The Life of the Prophet
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (Arabic: أَبُو مُحَمَّدٌ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ, romanizedAbū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī; died 7 May 833),[1] known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Muslim historian and scholar.[2] He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and later moved to Egypt.

  1. ^ Nadwi Muinuddin (1929). Catalogue Of The Arabic And Persian Manuscripts Vol Xv. pp. 182-183.
  2. ^ Kathryn Kueny, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, pg. 59. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ISBN 9780791490181