Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: writer · Historian
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Modern Era
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Ja'it Muhammad al-Aziz ibn Yusuf · Sati al-Husri · Muhammad ibn Isa Al Khalifa · Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti · Muhammad al-Amin al-Mithqab

History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

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Overview

Muhibb al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Khatib, an encyclopaedic writer, journalist, historian, political activist and social theorist. He was born in 1886 CE (1303 AH) and died in 1970 CE (1389 AH). ¹

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People and things also explored

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal

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. “Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhibb-al-din-al-khatib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.