Kitab al-I'tibar (Arabic: كتاب الاعتبار, The Book of Learning by Example) is the autobiography of Usama ibn-Munqidh, an Arab Syrian diplomat, soldier of...
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own original poetry. In modern times, he is remembered more for his Kitab al-I'tibar ("Book of Learning by Example" or "Book of Contemplation"), which contains...
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that al-Mas'udi wrote shortly before his death. Les Prairies d’or (Arabic text with French translation of Kitāb Murūj al-Dhahab wa-Ma‘ādin al-Jawhar)...
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Muslim world, was written by the prince Usama ibn Munqidh, titled Kitab al-I'tibar, and gives great insight into Muslim life in the 12th century. The...
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Abi Nuh al-Nasrani al-Anbari. However this may be, Jibril ibn Nuh's Kitāb al-Fikr wa-l-iʿtibār, the Tawḥīd al-Mufaḍḍal and pseudo-Jahiz's Kitāb al-Dalāʾil...
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al-Mufaḍḍal (توحيد المفضل, 'Declaration by al-Mufaddal of the Oneness of God'), also known as the Kitāb fī badʾ al-khalq wa-l-ḥathth ʿalā al-iʿtibār ('Book...
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vol. 5 Annotations, vol. 6 Index) Kitāb Iršād al-arīb ilā maʿrifat al-adīb al-maʿrūf bi-muʿǧam al-udabāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-udabāʾ (in MENAdoc), hg. D. S. Margoliouth...
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[citation needed] Most of al-Maqrizi's works, exceeding 200, are concerned with Egypt. al-Mawāʻiẓ wa-al-Iʻtibār bi-Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār (Arabic, 2 vols...
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frequent ambassador from Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt, whose memoirs, Kitab al i'tibar, include lively accounts of crusader society in the east. Further information...
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Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān of al-Imâm abu-l'Abbâs Aḥmad ibn-Jâbir al-Balâdhuri. Vol. 1. Translated by Philip Khuri...
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Ibn Khaldun (redirect from Abdurahman bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Hasan bin Jabir bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Abdurahman bin Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami)
Kitāb al-ʻIbar, (full title: Kitāb al-ʻIbar wa-Dīwān al-Mubtadaʼ wa-l-Khabar fī Taʼrīkh al-ʻArab wa-l-Barbar wa-Man ʻĀṣarahum min Dhawī ash-Shaʼn al-Akbār...
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had discovered the only known manuscript of the Kitāb al-i'tibār by the poet-envoy Usāma ibn Munqidh. Al-Fakhrî: Histoire du khalifat et du vizirat, depuis...
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Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (redirect from Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani)
Minhaj-al-Din Abu Amr Othman ibn Siraj-al-Din Muhammad Juzjani (born 1193), simply known as Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani, was a 13th-century Persian historian...
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Ibn Sa'd (redirect from Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir)
in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate. The Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (transl. The Major Book of Classes) is a compendium of biographical...
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who attempts to sort the historical from the legendary. Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Kitāb futuḥ misr wa akbārahā, edited and with English preface by Charles...
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Mukhtasar Kitab al-Wahm wa al-Iham li Ibn al-Qattan. Mukhtasar Sunan al-Bayhaqi; selected edition of Bayhaqi's Sunan al-Kubara. Mukhtasar al-Mustadrak li al-Hakim...
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Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (Arabic:...
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Warrior in the Period of the Crusades; Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh (Kitab al i'tibar), trans. Philip K. Hitti. New York, 1929. The Second Crusade Scope...
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Ibn Hisham (redirect from Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari al-Mu'afiri al-Baṣri)
by his other name, "Yaman". Al falah foundation. Cairo, Egypt. online link online link Kitab al-Tijan li ma'rifati muluk al-zamān fi akhbar Qahtān (كتاب...
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who enjoyed his writings include Martin Lings. Al-Waqidi is primarily known for his Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi (Arabic: كتاب التاريخ والمغازي, "Book...
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pseudo-Jahiz's Kitāb al-Dalāʾil likely go back on an earlier 9th-century text, which has sometimes been identified as the Kitāb al-Fikr wa-l-iʿtibār ("Book of...
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Ya'qubi (redirect from Al-Ya'qubi)
sympathies with Ahl al-Bayt are found throughout his works. He died in Egypt on AH 284 (897/8). Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih) Kitab al-Buldan (Book...
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cities made their way north to Al-Andalus in southern Iberia, enabling Al-Bakri to write in his Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik (Book of Highways and Kingdoms):...
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88 Ibn Rajab, Dhayl ʿalā Ṭabaqāt al-ḥanābila, Cairo 1372/1953, i, 399–434;Merlin Swartz, Ibn al-Jawzī’s Kitāb al-Quṣṣāṣ wa-’l-mudhakkirīn, Recherches...
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Ibn Kathir (redirect from Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir Al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi)
Essays / Volume II: Transliteration and Facsimile "Register of Books" (Kitāb Al-kutub), MS Török F. 59; Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény...
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mistakes made by al-Nawawi in his works on al-fiqh. Sharh Tanbih fi al-Fiqh lil-Shiraz, a commentary on al-Tanbih by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi Kitab al-Fatawi, an...
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Timeline of Syrian history Timeline of Damascus Usamah ibn Munqidh Kitab al-I'tibar Autobiography of Usamah "Syria". HISTORY. 21 August 2018. Retrieved...
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan al-Jabarti (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن حسن الجبرتي, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Jabartī; 1753–1825) was an Egyptian-Somali...
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Islamic Spain: the History of Ibn al-Qūṭīya, English translation by David James, Routledge, 2009. Kitāb Taṣārīf al-af’āl, ('Book on the Conjugation of...
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Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Thābit ibn Aḥmad ibn Māhdī al-Shāfiʿī, commonly known as al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (Arabic: الخطيب البغدادي) or "the lecturer from...
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