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.
He was the brother of Majd ad-Dīn and Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, often visited Baghdad and for a time traveled with Saladin's army in Syria. He later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (The Complete History).
Ibn al-Athir died in 1232/1233, and was buried in a cemetery in Mosul, at the district of Bab Sinjar.[13] His tomb was built in the 20th century and was located in the middle of a road, after the cemetery was cleared for modernization.[14] It became a site of an erroneous legend, which identified it as a tomb of a female mystic.[15] However, the government later installed a marble stele to indicate that it was Ibn al-Athir's tomb.[16][17] His tomb was also regarded in local Yazidi folklore as being the grave of a girl who married the Emir of Mosul but died of poisoning.[18]
Jami' al-Usul fi Ahadeth ar-Rasul, a massive collection of Hadith (14 large volumes).[21]
n-Nihayatu fi Gharib al-Hadith wa al-Athar, a classical work on Gharib branch of Hadith terminology where Al-Suyuti said: "This is the best books of rare terms (ghareeb), the most complete, best known and most widely used."[22]
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^a. Historiography of the Ayyubid and Mamluk epochs, Donald P. Little, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol.1, ed. M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 415. b. Ibn al-Athir, The A to Z of Islam, ed. Ludwig W. Adamec, (Scarecrow Press, 2009), 135. c. Peter Partner, God of Battles: Holy wars of Christianity and Islam, (Princeton University Press, 1997), 96. d. Venice and the Turks, Jean-Claude Hocquet, Venice and the Islamic world: 828–1797, edited by Stefano Carboni, (Editions Gallimard, 2006), 35 n17. e. Marc Ferro, Colonization: A Global History, (Routledge, 1997), 6. f. Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna, (Praeger Publishers, 2000), 69.
^1. Philip G. Kreyenbroek , Oral Literature of Iranian Languages al-Athir..a historian and biographer of Kurdish origin
2. Yasir Suleiman, "Language and identity in the Middle East and North Africa", Curzon Press, 1996, ISBN0700704108, p. 154.Ibn al-Athir, (d.1233), a Kurdish historian and biographer...
