Ibn Sahib al-Salat
Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt
Little is known of the life of Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt. His nisba indicates that his family came from Beja. He himself may have been born there or perhaps in Seville, where he spent his formative years and most of his life. He was studying theology in Marrakesh in 1165. His writings show that he was an eyewitness to many important events, including the Almohad conquest of Carmona in 1161, the fasts ordered in Marrakesh to celebrate the Caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf's recovery from illness in 1170 and the battle of Huete in 1172.[2] He was a ḥāfiẓ. He was still living in 1198.[3]
Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt's main work is al-Mann bi ʾl-imāma ʿala ʾmustaḍʿafīn bi-an jaʿalahum Allāh al-aʿimma wa-jaʿalahum al-wārithīn ('Gift of the Imamate to the Formerly Humiliated, Whom God Has Made Imams and Heirs').
Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt also wrote Thawrat al-murīdīn ('Revolution of the Disciples'), a history of the second period of
Notes
- ^ Also transliterated al-Ṣalā, as in Balbale 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f García Novo 2018.
- ^ a b c d Hopkins 1971.
- ^ a b Balbale 2023, p. 74n.
- ^ Hopkins 1958, p. xvi.
- ^ Balbale 2023, p. 74n, citing the translation of Huici Miranda 1969.
- ^ Hopkins 1958, pp. 87ff.
- ^ Balbale 2023, pp. 74n, 274.
Bibliography
- Balbale, Abigail Krasner (2023). The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus. Cornell University Press. .
- García Novo, Marta (2018). "Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt al-Bāŷī". Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia.
- Hopkins, J. F. P. (1958). Medieval Muslim Government in Barbary until the Sixth Century of the Hijra. Luzac.
- Hopkins, J. F. P. (1971). "Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt". In OCLC 495469525.
- Huici Miranda, Ambrosio, ed. (1969). Al-Mann bil-Imāma: Estudio preliminar, traducción e índices (PDF). Anubar.