Ibn Athir
Ibn Athīr is the family name of three brothers, all famous in
Jazīrat ibn Umar[1] (today's Cizre nowadays in south-eastern Turkey) in upper Mesopotamia. The ibn al-Athir brothers belonged to the Shayban lineage[2] of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr,[3][4] who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr.[5][6]
Brothers
Majd ad-Dīn
The eldest brother, known as Majd ad-Dīn (1149–1210), was long in the service of the amir of Mosul, and was an earnest student of tradition and language. His dictionary of traditions (Kitāb an-Ni/zdya) was published at Cairo (1893), and his dictionary of family names (Kitāb ul-Murassa) has been edited by Ferdinand Seybold (Weimar, 1896).[1]
Diyā' ad-Dīn
The youngest brother ، ضياء الدين ، Diyā' ad-Dīn (1163–1239), served under
. He was one of the most famous aesthetic and stylistic critics of Arabian literature. His works include:- "Book of Analysis" or Kitab at-Tahlil (كتاب التحليل)Arabic verse.[1]
- al-Washy al-marḳūm (Beirut 1298).
- al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr, ed. by Muṣṭafā D̲j̲awād and D̲j̲amil Saʿīd (Bag̲h̲dād 1375, 1956).
- al-Mathal al-sāʾir (Arabic: المثل السائر)
- ed. by Muḥammad Muḥy al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, 2 vols (Cairo 1939).
- al-Maṯal al-sāʾir fī ʾadab wa-l-šāʿir (Cairo: Dār Nahḍat Maṣr lil-Tabʿ wa-n-Našr, [no date])[8]
- al-Istidrāk fi ’l-akhdh ʿala ’l-Māʾākhidh al-Kindiyya (Cairo 1958)
- One of the collections of his Rasāʾil, ed. by Anīs al-Maḳdisī (Beirut 1959) (based on the manuscript Topkapisaray Ahmed III, 2630)
- A selection of his letters published by David Samuel Margoliouth are available under the title On the Royal Correspondence of Diyā' ad-Dīn al-Jazarī in the Actes du dixieme congrès international des orientalistes, sect. 3, pp. 7–21.[1]
Ali ibn al-Athir
The most famous brother was
Tabari with minor additions. Ibn Athīr also wrote a history of the Atabegs of Mosul at-Tarīkh al-atabakīya, published in the Recueil des historiens des croisades (vol. ii., Paris); a work (Usd al-Ghdba) giving an account of 7,500 companions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad (5 vols., Cairo, 1863), and a compendium (the Lubāb) of Samani's Kitāb ui-A n.~db (cf. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld's Specimen el-Lobabi, Göttingen, 1835).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibn Athīr". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 219.
- ^ Kamaruzaman, A.F., Jamaludin, N., Fadzil, A.F.M., 2015. [Ibn Al-Athir’s Philosophy of History in Al-Kamil Fi Al-Tarikh https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281910057_Ibn_Al-Athir's_Philosophy_of_History_in_Al-Kamil_Fi_Al-Tarikh]. Asian Social Science 11(23).
- ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P. 1991. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ibn al-athir.
- ^ Donner, Fred McGraw. “The Bakr B. Wā'il Tribes and Politics in Northeastern Arabia on the Eve of Islam.” Studia Islamica, no. 51, 1980, pp. 5–38. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1595370.
- ^ Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger. 1995. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3 Southern Europe. Routledge. P 190.
- ^ Canard, M., Cahen, Cl., Yinanç, Mükrimin H., and Sourdel-Thomine, J. ‘Diyār Bakr’. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Ed. P. Bearman et al. Brill Reference Online. Web. 16 Nov. 2019. Accessed on 16 November 2019.
- ^ URL: http://download-story-pdf-ebooks.com/6557-free-book.
- ^ For information on earlier editions, see S. A. Bonebakker, 'Notes on Some Old Manuscripts of the Adab al-kātib of ibn Qutayba, the Kitāb aṡ-Ṡināʿatayn of Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī, and the Maṯal as-sāʾir of Ḍiyāʾ ad-Dīn ibn al-Aṯīr', Oriens, 13/14 (1960/1961), 159–194 (pp. 186–194). A further edition is available from Maktaba.
- ^ URL: https://archive.org/details/Alkamil_Fi_Tarikh
