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Raghib al-Khalidi

راغب الخالدي

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Nablus

Jerusalem judge (1866–1952) of the Khalidi family who served in the judiciary of Jerusalem and then Jaffa, and founded the Khalidi Library, opened to the public in 1900 in the Old City of Jerusalem, gathering the family's centuries-old manuscript collections under a waqf established by his mother Khadija Khanum.

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judge
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Levant & Iraq
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    Nablus

    People and things also explored

    Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Earthquake at Ramla and the sea's recession, 425· The Faryani's Mahdist claim· Damascus submits to the Tatars, 658· Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606· Akram Zuaiter· Awni Abd al-Hadi· Hanan Ashrawi

    Sources

    • Khalidi Library — English Wikipedia
    • Old City's Khalidi Library Reopens After Nearly a Half Century — Jerusalem Post
    • The Khàalidiyya Library in Jerusalem — MELA Notes
    • A Family's History — Tarif Khalidi
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    Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300

    Al-Dhahabi travelled in quest of hadith: he heard at Baalbek from Ibn Khulayk ibn Ulwan and Zaynab bint Umar ibn al-Kindi, at Mecca from al-Tuzari, at Aleppo from Shawkar al-Zayni, at Nablus from al-Imad ibn Badran, at Alexandria from Abu al-Hasan al-Iraqi and Yahya al-Sawwaf, and stayed longest at Cairo under Ibn Mansur al-Ifriqi and chiefly Taqi al-Din Ibn Daqiq al-Id — until his teachers passed 1,300, whose biographies he collected in his Mu'jam. Ibn Hajar notes he produced some thirty travel parts of his own.