Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Khazraji

{{Short description|Ayyubid scholar}}

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khazrajī (died 1258 AD {{bracket|656 AH}}),{{harvnb|Satō|1997|p=43}}. Hafez (cited in {{harvnb|Meho|1997|p=54}}) places his death in 1309 (709). also known as Ibn al-Khazrajī,{{sfn|Humphreys|1977|p=398}} was an Arab scholar and historian of the late Ayyubid period. A member of the Banū Khazraj and a native of Tlemcen, he taught ḥadīth in Alexandria.{{sfn|Satō|1997|p=43}} His work, which survives only in part, is based largely on that of Sibt ibn al-Jawzi. It is known by the title Taʾrīkh al-Dawlat al-Akrād wal-Atrāk ("History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire").{{sfn|Humphreys|1977|p=398}} It is arranged on a year-by-year basis and in each year a prominent jurist, poet or similar who died that year is celebrated with anecdotes.Hafez, cited in {{harvnb|Meho|1997|p=54}}. In its independent passages, it is a valuable source of Ayyubid history.{{sfn|Satō|1997|p=43}}{{sfn|Humphreys|1977|p=398}} It can be found in the manuscript Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa 695.{{sfn|Satō|1997|p=43}}

Editions

  • Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris Abd al-Aziz al-Ansari al-Khazraji, History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire (1176–1200). Partial English translation from the Arabic with annotations by Fahmy Hafez. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1985.

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite journal |title=The Crusades and the Era of Saladin |last=Hafez |first=Fahmy |journal=International Journal of Kurdish Studies |year=1999 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=1–14}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Humphreys |year=1977 |first=R. Stephen |title=From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260 |publisher=State University of New York Press}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Meho |first=Lokman I. |title=The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1997}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Satō |first=Tsugitaka |title=State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, Muqtaʿs and Fallahun |publisher=E. J. Brill |year=1997}}

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Category:1258 deaths

Category:Historians from the Ayyubid Sultanate

Category:People from Tlemcen

Category:13th-century Egyptian historians