Mujir al-Din

This article is about the Jerusalemite chronicler. For the governor of Damascus, see Mujir ad-Din Abaq.
Mujir al-Din
Grave of Mujir al-Din, at the base of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.
Born1456 CE
Jerusalem
Died1522 CE
Occupation(s)Historian, Qadi
Academic work
EraMedieval Islamic period
Main interestsHistory of Jerusalem and Hebron
Notable worksal-Uns al-Jalil bi-tarikh al-Quds wal-Khalil (The Glorious History of Jerusalem and Hebron)

Mujīr al-Dīn al-ʿUlaymī (Arabic: مجير الدين العليمي; 1456–1522), often simply Mujir al-Din, was a Jerusalemite qadi and historian whose principal work chronicled the history of Jerusalem and Hebron in the Middle Ages.[1][2] Entitled al-Uns al-Jalil bi-tarikh al-Quds wal-Khalil ("The glorious history of Jerusalem and Hebron") (c. 1495), it is considered to be invaluable, constituting "the most comprehensive and detailed source for the history of Jerusalem" written in its time.[1][3][4]

  1. ^ a b Little, 1995, p. 237.
  2. ^ van Donzel, 1994, p. 291.
  3. ^ Khalidi, 1998, p. 216, footnote 25.
  4. ^ Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p. 148.