Title ibn al-Athir Creed Ash'ari Era Islamic Golden Age Jurisprudence Sunni | Role Historian Ethnicity Arab or Kurdish Name Ali al-Athir Main interests History | |
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Notable work(s) The Complete History and The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions Parents Muhammad ibn Abdul Karim al-Jazari Books The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athir for the Crusading Period from Al-Kamil Fiʼl-taʼrikh | ||
Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ash-Shaybani, better known as Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari (Arabic: عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري) (1233–1160) was an Arab or Kurdish historian and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family. According to the 1911 Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, he was born in Jazirat Ibn Umar, Great Seljuq Empire.
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Biography
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr, who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, often visited Baghdad and for a time traveled with Saladin's army in Syria. He later lived in Aleppo and Damascus. His chief work was a history of the world, al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (The Complete History). He died in the city of Mosul.
Modern age
According to Reuters, his tomb was desecrated in Mosul by members of the al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in June 2014.