Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān | |
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ابن خلكان | |
Title | Chief Judge |
Personal | |
Born | 22 September 1211 |
Died | 30 October 1282 | (aged 71)
Religion | Islam |
Region | Middle East |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i[1] |
Creed | Ash'ari[2] |
Notable work(s) | Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch |
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān[a][3] (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch (Arabic: وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان, romanized: wafayāt al-ʾaʿyān wa-ʾanbāʾ ʾabnāʾ al-zamān).[4] Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.[5]
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