Al-Tha'alibi is born at Nishapur, 350/961

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961 CE · 350 AH

Nishapur

Abu Mansur Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Tha'alibi was born in 350 AH at Nishapur 1, the city that in his generation became a cultural rival to Baghdad 2; Ibn al-Imad notes he lived eighty years 3.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Nishapur

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Abu Mansur Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Tha'alibi was born in 350 AH at Nishapur 1, the city that in his generation became a cultural rival to Baghdad 2; Ibn al-Imad notes he lived eighty years 3.

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Al-Tha'alibi dies at Nishapur, 429/1038· Al-Tha'alibi studies adab under Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi, c. 375/985· Al-Tha'alibi the schoolmaster and his Mikali patrons, c. 380/990· Al-Tha'alibi returns to Nishapur, probably by way of Herat, c. 412/1022· Al-Tha'alibi composes the Tatimmat al-Yatima late in life, c. 420/1029· al-Tha'alibi· Nishapur· The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 450
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 246-247
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Al-Tha'alibi dies at Nishapur, 429/1038

Al-Tha'alibi died at Nishapur in 429 AH — Ibn al-Imad allows the year before — at eighty years of age, having filled East and West with diwans and compilations that al-Safadi's list counts at eighty-six titles.