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'Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad'^[2], better known as 'Ali 'izz al-Din Ibn al- Athir al-Jazari'^[3] (1160 – 1233) was an Arab muslim historian born in Cizre, a town in present-day
Şırnak province in south-eastern Turkey, from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was born in ''Jazirat Ibn Umar'' in Kurdistan [2]. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, he was Kurdish ^[4].

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Biography

Works

See also

Notes

External links

Biography

He spent a scholarly life in Mosul, but often visited Baghdad. For a time he was with Saladin's army in Syria and later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, ''al-Kamil fi at-tarikh'' (''The Complete History'').
He includes some information on the Rus' people in his chronology.

Works

★ The Complete History - (Arabic ''Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh'').

★ The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions - (Arabic ''Usud al-Ghabah fi Ma'rifah al-Sahabah'').

See also

★ List of Islamic scholars

★ Ibn Athir

★ Ibn Fadlan

★ Ibn Rustah

★ Varangian

Notes

1. [1]
2. Ali, the father of Hasan and son of Muhammad who was the son of Muhammad
3. Ali, height of belief, son of Athir, from Jazar
4. [3]

External links

★ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041903

★ Ibn al-Athīr's Accounts of the Rūs: A Commentary and Translation by William E. Watson from Canadian/American Slavic Studies

★ http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/islhist.html

★ http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/rijal.html

★ Kurds and Kurdistan, Encyclopaedia of Islam.