Ibn Khallikan
| Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān | |
|---|---|
| Personal Details | |
| Title | Chief Judge |
| Born | September 22, 1211 in Irbil (now Iraq) |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. in Damascus (now Syria) |
| Ethnicity | Kurdish |
| Region | Middle East |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i[1] |
Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (Arabic: شمس الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن خلكان, in Kurdish "Ibn Xelikan", the Khallikans are a kurdish tribe) (September 22, 1211 – October 30, 1282) was a 13th Century Shafi'i Islamic scholar of Arab[2] or Kurdish[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] origin. He was described 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."[10]
Biography
Ibn Khallikan was born in Arbil, Iraq on September 22, 1211, studied there and in Aleppo and Damascus.[11] He also studied jurisprudence at Mosul and then settled in Cairo.[12] He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.[12] Ibn Khallikan married in the year 1252.[12]
He was an assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261 when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.[11] Ibn Khallikan was removed from this position in 1271, returned to Egypt and taught there until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in the year 1278.[11] He retired from this position in 1281[12] and died in Damascus on October 30, 1282.[11]
Works
Ibn Khallikan's most renowned work is the biographical dictionary entitled Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān (Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch).[11] He began compiling this work in 1256 and continued until 1274, referencing the works of earlier scholars.[11] Deaths of Eminent Men does not include biographies of individuals already sufficiently covered, such as the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and the caliphs.[11] This work has been translated into English by William McGuckin de Slane, (1801–1878), and is over 2,700 pages long.[12] The British scholar Reynold A. Nicholson called it the "best general biography ever written".[10]
References
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- ↑ (Ed.) Kenneth M. Setton, Harry Williams Hazard, Norman P. Zacour, A History of the Crusades: The Impact of the Crusades on Europe, University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, s. 681.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=PEXJelJiwh4C&pg=PA31 (A travers deux siècles, Le Caveau, société bachique et chantante: 1726-1939 Par Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. Institut de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Occident moderne. Colloque,Brigitte Leve)
- ↑ Firoozeh Papan-Matin. "Beyond Death: The Mystical Teachings of ʻAyn Al-Quḍāt Al-Hamadhānī". p. 97-98 The famous Kurdish medieval biographer Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Khallikān..
- ↑ http://www.kurdishacademy.org/?q=node/773 (According to the british kurdish academy of london, ibn kahlikkan is kurdish)
- ↑ http://www.wdl.org/fr/search/?contributors=Ibn%20Khallik%C4%81n%2C%201211-1282#7448 (According to the Egyptian "bibliotheca alexandrina" , ibn khallikan is kurdish)
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=xLwWYCuZgDYC&pg=PA515 (Ibn Khallikan book's "kurds are not persians...")
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=q_189OeDwSMC&pg=PA500 (According to the journal "Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: A-I. vol. 1, Volume 1 ", Ibn Khallikan is a Kurdish intellectuel)
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=UZU3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1155 (According to the british historian "E.J.BRILL", "first encyclopaedia of islam", printed in 1913 and 1936, Ibn Khallian is kurdish)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), Historical Dictionary of Islam, p.139. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810861615.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Bibliography
- Ibn Khallikān (1843) Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, M. de Slane trans. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843. Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 & Vol. 4
