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Durrat al-Aslak fi Dawlat al-Atrak

درة الأسلاك في دولة الأتراك

Ibn Habib al-Halabi's history of the 'state of the Turks' (the Mamluk sultanate), whose annals he carried from 648 and finished down to 777 1 — al-Zirikli gives the coverage as 648-778 2; his son Tahir ibn Habib wrote a continuation 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

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

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Ibn Habib al-Halabi

People and things also explored

Birth of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Damascus, Sha'ban 710/early 1311· Death of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Aleppo, Rabi' II 779/1377· Ibn Habib brings his Tarikh Dawlat al-Atrak down to 777/1376· Ibn Habib at Tripoli in 758/1357· Ibn Habib al-Halabi· Aleppo· Damascus· Islamic history between idealism and realism

Sources

  1. Al-Nujum al-Zahira fi Muluk Misr wa-l-Qahira — Ibn Taghribirdi , 11/189
  2. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , 2/218-219
  • Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut)
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Birth of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Damascus, Sha'ban 710/early 1311

Al-Hasan ibn 'Umar ibn al-Hasan ibn Habib, Badr al-Din al-Halabi, was born at Damascus in Sha'ban 710; his father was appointed muhtasib of Aleppo, and the boy moved with him, grew up there and took his nisba from the city.