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Ibn al-Jawzi succeeds Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani in his two madrasas

ابن الجوزي يخلف أبا حكيم النهرواني في مدرستيه

1161 CE · 556 AH

Baghdad

Ibn al-Jawzi began teaching as assistant to his shaykh Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani in the latter's madrasa at Bab al-Azad and, in the year of the shaykh's death, in a madrasa built for him at the Ma'muniyya; on al-Nahrawani's death in 556/1161 Ibn al-Jawzi succeeded him as master of both colleges 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

115011601170
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Baghdad

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Overview

Ibn al-Jawzi taught as assistant to Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani at Bab al-Azad; when his shaykh died in 556/1161 he succeeded him as master of the Bab al-Azad and Ma'muniyya madrasas 1.

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Had participant
Ibn al-Jawzi
Occurred at
Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi

People and things also explored

Baghdad· death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· death of the caliph al-Mustanjid — al-Mustaḍīʾ succeeds· Ibn al-Jawzi's Ashura sermon, 568/1172· Ibn al-Jawzi begins his career under the caliph al-Muktafi· Ibn al-Jawzi released and returns to Baghdad, 595/1198–9· The zenith of Ibn al-Jawzi's career at Baghdad, 574/1178–9· Abu al-Barakat al-Anmati

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 783
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Baghdad lies on both banks of the Tigris. Founded by al-Mansur in the eighth century as his Round City and called Madinat al-Salam, it stayed the centre of the Abbasid caliphate until the Mongol conquest of 656/1258 and was for centuries the cultural metropolis of the Muslim world. It later became a provincial centre under the Ilkhanids and the Ottomans, and in 1921 the capital of modern Iraq.