Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi

Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi
Personal life
Born
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi

Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died860 CE
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)Islamic history, history of pre-Islamic Arabia
Notable work(s)Kitāb al-Muḥabbar
OccupationWriter, historian, and linguist
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Islam

Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi (Arabic: محمد بن حبيب البغدادي), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi, was a ninth-century historian, writer and linguist who lived in Baghdad, Iraq.

Career

Al-Baghdadi was a staunch supporter of the Abbasid Caliphate and wrote more than ten works on history, genealogy, biographies and the Arabic language, including poetry collections and linguistic works. Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi died in the year 860 CE (year 245 of the Hijri calendar).[1][2][3]

Notable works

  • Kitāb al-Muḥabbar[4][3]
  • Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn min al-ashrāf fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām: Wa-yalīhi Kuná al-shuʻarāʼ wa-man ghalabat kunyatuhu ʻalá ismih (Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Periods: Including the Names of Murdered Poets)[5]
  • al-Munmaq fi 'Akhbar al-Quraysh (The Broad Histories of the Quraysh)[6]
  • al-Shu'ara wa an-Sabuhum (The Poets and Their Lineages)[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Omar Farouk (1981). Tarikh al-Adab al-Arabi – al-Aisar al-Abbasiyya (4th ed.). Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Millain.
  2. ^ "محمد بن حبيب البغدادي". مداد (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-06-08.
  3. ^ a b Lichtenstädter, Ilse (January 1939). "Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabîb and his Kitâb al-Muḥabbar". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 71 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00091954. ISSN 2051-2066.
  4. ^ Robin, Christian Julien (2012). "Arabia and Ethiopia". In Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. pp. 247–332.
  5. ^ Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb; Ḥasan, Sayyid Kasrawī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (2001). Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn min al-ashrāf fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām: Wa-yalīhi Kuná al-shuʻarāʼ wa-man ghalabat kunyatuhu ʻalá ismih (al-Ṭabʻah 1 ed.). Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah. ISBN 978-2-7451-3177-5.
  6. ^ a b "محمد بن حبيب - المكتبة الشاملة". shamela.ws (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-06-08.