Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi
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| birth_name = Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi
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| birth_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
| death_date = 860 CE
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| occupation = Writer, historian, and linguist
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| main_interests = Islamic history, history of pre-Islamic Arabia
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Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi (Arabic: محمد بن حبيب البغدادي), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi, was a ninth-century historian, writer and linguist who lived in Baghdad, Iraq.
Career
Al-Baghdadi was a staunch supporter of the Abbasid Caliphate and wrote more than ten works on history, genealogy, biographies and the Arabic language, including poetry collections and linguistic works. Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi died in the year 860 CE (year 245 of the Hijri calendar).{{Cite book |last=Omar Farouk |title=Tarikh al-Adab al-Arabi – al-Aisar al-Abbasiyya |publisher=Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Millain |year=1981 |edition=4th}}{{Cite web |title=محمد بن حبيب البغدادي |url=http://midad.com/scholar/44289 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=مداد |language=ar}}{{Cite journal |last=Lichtenstädter |first=Ilse |date=January 1939 |title=Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabîb and his Kitâb al-Muḥabbar |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/muhammad-ibn-habib-and-his-kitab-almuhabbar1/ED19886FF55EC4FB165A34B4B8626A5B |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |language=en |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=1–27 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00091954 |issn=2051-2066|url-access=subscription }}
Notable works
- Kitāb al-Muḥabbar{{Cite book |last=Robin |first=Christian Julien |title=The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor-last=Johnson |editor-first=Scott Fitzgerald |pages=247–332 |chapter=Arabia and Ethiopia}}
- Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn min al-ashrāf fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām: Wa-yalīhi Kuná al-shuʻarāʼ wa-man ghalabat kunyatuhu ʻalá ismih (Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Periods: Including the Names of Murdered Poets){{Cite book |last=Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb |title=Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn min al-ashrāf fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām: Wa-yalīhi Kuná al-shuʻarāʼ wa-man ghalabat kunyatuhu ʻalá ismih |last2=Ḥasan |first2=Sayyid Kasrawī |last3=Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb |date=2001 |publisher=Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah |isbn=978-2-7451-3177-5 |edition=al-Ṭabʻah 1 |location=Bayrūt}}
- al-Munmaq fi 'Akhbar al-Quraysh (The Broad Histories of the Quraysh){{Cite web |title=محمد بن حبيب - المكتبة الشاملة |url=https://shamela.ws/author/717 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=shamela.ws |language=ar}}
- al-Shu'ara wa an-Sabuhum (The Poets and Their Lineages)