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| jurisprudence = ]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=B. |last2=Menage |first2=V.L. |last3=Pellat |first3=Ch. |last4=Schacht |first4=J. |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |volume=III (H-Iram) |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, Netherlands |date=1986 |orig-year=1st pub. 1971 |isbn=978-9004081185 |page=832|edition=New }}</ref> | jurisprudence = ]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=B. |last2=Menage |first2=V.L. |last3=Pellat |first3=Ch. |last4=Schacht |first4=J. |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |volume=III (H-Iram) |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, Netherlands |date=1986 |orig-year=1st pub. 1971 |isbn=978-9004081185 |page=832|edition=New }}</ref>
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'''Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān'''{{efn|Also known as '''Abū ʾl-ʿAbbās S̲h̲ams al-Dīn al-Barmakī al-Irbilī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī''' ({{lang-ar|أبو العباس شمس الدين البرمكي الأربلي الشافعي}})}}<ref name="brill-eoi">{{cite journal|last1=J.W.|first1=Fück|title=Ibn Khallikan|publisher=Brill|language=en|doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_sim_3248}}</ref> ({{lang-ar|أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان}}; September 22, 1211 – October 30, 1282), better known as '''Ibn Khallikān''', was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated ] of ] scholars and important men in Muslim history, '']'' ('Wafayāt al-Aʿyān wa-Anbāʾ Abnāʾ az-Zamān').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|title = Ibn Khallikan}}</ref> Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.<ref>{{cite book |last1=El Hareir |first1=Idris |last2=Mbaye |first2=Ravane |authorlink= |title=The Spread of Islam Throughout the World | publisher=UNESCO Pub.| date=2011 |isbn= |page=295}}</ref> '''Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān'''{{efn|Also known as '''Abū ʾl-ʿAbbās S̲h̲ams al-Dīn al-Barmakī al-Irbilī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī''' ({{langx|ar|أبو العباس شمس الدين البرمكي الأربلي الشافعي}})}}<ref name="brill-eoi">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=J.W. |first1=Fück |title=Ibn Khallikan |publisher=Brill |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam |edition=Second |language=en |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_sim_3248}}</ref> ({{langx|ar|أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان}}; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as '''Ibn Khallikān''', was a renowned ] Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated ] of ]s and important men in Muslim history, '']'' ({{langx|ar|وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان|translit=wafayāt al-ʾaʿyān wa-ʾanbāʾ ʾabnāʾ al-zamān}}).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|title=Ibn Khallikan|access-date=10 May 2022|archive-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617021352/https://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=El Hareir |first1=Idris |last2=Mbaye |first2=Ravane |authorlink= |title=The Spread of Islam Throughout the World | publisher=UNESCO Pub.| date=2011 |isbn= |page=295}}</ref>


==Life== ==Life==
Ibn Khallikān was born in ] on September 22, 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), into a respectable family that claimed descent from ],<ref name="brill-eoi" /> an ] dynasty of ]i origin.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&q=barmakids+iranian&pg=PA71 | title=The Cambridge History of Iran| isbn=9780521200936| last1=Frye| first1=R. N.| last2=Fisher| first2=William Bayne| last3=Frye| first3=Richard Nelson| last4=Avery| first4=Peter| last5=Boyle| first5=John Andrew| last6=Gershevitch| first6=Ilya| last7=Jackson| first7=Peter| date=1975-06-26}}</ref> Other sources describe him as ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volumes 1 and 2. |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666171/ |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> Ibn Khallikān was born in ] on 22 September 1211 (11 ], 608), into a family that claimed descent from ],<ref name="brill-eoi" /> an ] dynasty from ].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&q=barmakids+iranian&pg=PA71 | title=The Cambridge History of Iran| isbn=9780521200936| last1=Frye| first1=R. N.| last2=Fisher| first2=William Bayne| last3=Frye| first3=Richard Nelson| last4=Avery| first4=Peter| last5=Boyle| first5=John Andrew| last6=Gershevitch| first6=Ilya| last7=Jackson| first7=Peter| date=26 June 1975| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>


His primary studies took him from Arbil, to ] and to ],<ref name="EB">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/280795/Ibn-Khallikan|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Ibn Khallikān|year=2010|access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref> before he took up ] in ] and then in ], where he settled.<ref name="HT" /> He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.<ref name="HT">{{cite web|url=http://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|title=Ibn Khallikan|publisher=Humanistic Texts.org|access-date=May 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020172417/http://humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|archive-date=October 20, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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."<ref name="Ludwig 2009">] (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', p.139. Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|0810861615}}.</ref> His primary studies took him from Erbil, to ] and to ],<ref name="EB">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/280795/Ibn-Khallikan|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Ibn Khallikān|year=2010|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> before he took up ] in ] and then in ], where he settled.<ref name="HT" /> He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian.<ref name="HT">{{cite web|url=http://www.humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|title=Ibn Khallikan|publisher=Humanistic Texts.org|access-date=22 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020172417/http://humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm|archive-date=20 October 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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."<ref name="Ludwig 2009">] (2009), ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', p.139. Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|0810861615}}.</ref>


He married in 1252<ref name="HT" /> and was assistant to the chief judge in ] until 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.<ref name="EB" /> He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278.<ref name="EB" /> He retired in 1281<ref name="HT" /> and died in Damascus on October 30, 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).<ref name="EB" /> He married in 1252<ref name="HT" /> and was assistant to the chief judge in ] until 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus.<ref name="EB" /> He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278.<ref name="EB" /> He retired in 1281<ref name="HT" /> and died in Damascus on 30 October 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).<ref name="EB" />


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Muslim historian (1211–1282)

Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān
ابن خلكان
TitleChief Judge
Personal life
Born22 September 1211
Erbil
Died30 October 1282(1282-10-30) (aged 71)
Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate
RegionMiddle East
Notable work(s)Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari

Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Kurdish 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 (Arabic: وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان, romanizedwafayāt al-ʾaʿyān wa-ʾanbāʾ ʾabnāʾ al-zamān). Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.

Life

Ibn Khallikān was born in Erbil on 22 September 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), into a family that claimed descent from Barmakids, an Iranian dynasty from Balkh.

His primary studies took him from Erbil, to Aleppo and to Damascus, before he took up jurisprudence in Mosul and then in Cairo, where he settled. He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian. 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."

He married in 1252 and was assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus. He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278. He retired in 1281 and died in Damascus on 30 October 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).

Notes

  1. Also known as Abū ʾl-ʿAbbās S̲h̲ams al-Dīn al-Barmakī al-Irbilī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī (Arabic: أبو العباس شمس الدين البرمكي الأربلي الشافعي)

References

  1. Lewis, B.; Menage, V.L.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. (1986) . Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. III (H-Iram) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 832. ISBN 978-9004081185.
  2. Schmidtke, Sabine (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 556. ISBN 9780199696703.
  3. ^ J.W., Fück. "Ibn Khallikan". Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second ed.). Brill. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_sim_3248.
  4. "Ibn Khallikan". Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. El Hareir, Idris; Mbaye, Ravane (2011). The Spread of Islam Throughout the World. UNESCO Pub. p. 295.
  6. Frye, R. N.; Fisher, William Bayne; Frye, Richard Nelson; Avery, Peter; Boyle, John Andrew; Gershevitch, Ilya; Jackson, Peter (26 June 1975). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521200936.
  7. ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Ibn Khallikān". 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  8. ^ "Ibn Khallikan". Humanistic Texts.org. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  9. Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), Historical Dictionary of Islam, p.139. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810861615.

Bibliography

  • Ibn Khallikan (1842–1871). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Translated from the Arabic (4 vols.). Translated by Baron Mac Guckin de Slane. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
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