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Death of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 749/1349

وفاة ابن فضل الله العمري بدمشق، ٧٤٩هـ/١٣٤٩م

1 March 1349 CE · 9 Dhu al-Hijja 749 AH

Damascus

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Fadl Allah died at Damascus of a quartan fever on the Day of Arafa, 9 Dhu al-Hijja 749 (1 March 1349), leaving Masalik al-Absar, al-Ta'rif bi'l-Mustalah al-Sharif, essays and verse; al-Dhahabi records his many literary works and long reach in the two crafts and skill in the two rhetorics 1 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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134013501360
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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Summary

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Fadl Allah died at Damascus of a quartan fever on the Day of Arafa, 9 Dhu al-Hijja 749 (1 March 1349), leaving Masalik al-Absar, al-Ta'rif bi'l-Mustalah al-Sharif, essays and verse; al-Dhahabi records his many literary works and long reach in the two crafts and skill in the two rhetorics 1 2.

Details

Obstinate and outspoken, quick to make enemies, he served less time in the diwan than his father or brothers — yet outshone them all as a writer, the family's true glory being the encyclopedist rather than the official 2 3.

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Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari
Occurred at
Damascus

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Birth of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 700/1301· Al-Umari takes the Damascus chancery, Muharram 741/1340· Al-Umari dismissed from the Damascus chancery, Safar 743/1342· The retirement years and the great works, 743-749/1342-1349· Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari· Damascus· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/333
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 pp. 790-791
  3. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/332
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Birth of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 700/1301

Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Fadl Allah al-Adawi al-Umari was born at Damascus on 3 Shawwal 700 (12 June 1301), into a Shafi'i family already established in the Mamluk chancery; the nasab he himself dictated traced the line back to Umar ibn al-Khattab — whence the nisba al-Umari.