Ibn al-Athir Imad al-Din
ابن الأثير عماد الدين
c. 1245 CE · c. 643 AH† – 1299 CE · 699 AH †
† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
The historian Imad al-Din Isma'il ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Jazari al-Shaybani, of the Ibn al-Athir scholarly family; author of 'al-Bahir fi Tarikh Dawlat al-Atabika bi-l-Mawsil', combining historical narrative with verse.
At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Life in time
In space
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History-writing and social thoughtLiterature
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
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Connections
- Lived in
- Mosul
- Authored
- al-Bahir fi Tarikh Dawlat al-Atabika
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-DinIbn al-Athir Izz al-DinIbn al-Athir Najm al-DinGreat Mosque of al-NuriIbn al-Athir al-JazriIbn al-Abbar, Muhammad ibn Abd AllahIbn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn YusufMosul
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Athir Imad al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-athir-imad-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.