Ibn al-Athir

Izz ad-Dīn Abū al-Hasan Ibn al-Athīr
TitleAl-Hafiz
Izz ad-Din
Personal
BornMay 12, 1160 CE, Jazirat Ibn Umar, present-day Cizre, Seljuk Empire
DiedAH 630 (1232/1233), Mosul, Ayyubid dynasty[4]
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[1]
CreedAsh'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

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.

  1. ^ Majd al-Din al-Mubarak bin Muhammad, Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari. الشافي شرح مسند الشافعي 1-3 ج3. Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah. p. 612.
  2. ^ Nevin Reda; Yasmin Amin, eds. (2020). Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion and Change. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780228002963. '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.
  3. ^ 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Tahir. "دور أبي ذر الهروي في نشر الأشعرية بالمغرب" [The role of Abu Dharr al-Harawi in the spread of Ash'ari theology in Morocco] (in Arabic). Muhammadiya Association of Scholars (al-Rabita al-Muhammadiyya lil-'Ulamā' in Morocco). Archived from the original on 13 Apr 2023.
  4. ^ Fourth to Seventh century
  5. ^ Andersson, Tobias (16 October 2018). Early Sunnī Historiography A Study of the Tārīkh of Khalīfa B. Khayyāṭ. Brill. p. 62. ISBN 9789004383173.