Ibn Khallikan
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Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn KhallikānTemplate:Efn[1] (Template:Langx; 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 (Template:Langx).[2] Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.[3]
Life
Ibn Khallikān was born in Erbil on 22 September 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), he was of Arabian origins[4] from an Arab family[5] that claimed descent from the Barmakids.[6]
His primary studies took him from Erbil, to Aleppo and to Damascus,[7] before he took up jurisprudence in Mosul and then in Cairo, where he settled.[8] He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.[8] An early biographer described him as "a pious man, virtuous, and learned; amiable in temper, in conversation serious and instructive. His exterior was highly prepossessing, his countenance handsome and his manners engaging."[9]
He married in 1252[8] and was assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.[7] He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278.[7] He retired in 1281[8] and died in Damascus on 30 October 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).[7]
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- 1211 births
- 1282 deaths
- 13th-century Muslim theologians
- Medieval grammarians of Arabic
- Barmakids
- Hadith scholars
- Iraqi genealogists
- Encyclopedists of the medieval Islamic world
- Historians of the medieval Islamic world
- People from Damascus
- People from Erbil
- Shafi'is
- 13th-century historians
- Iraqi writers