Ibn alathir belonged to the shayban lineage of the large and influential arab tribe banu bakr, who lived across upper mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of diyar bakr he was the brother of majd addin and diya addin ibn athir. The chronicle of ibn alathir for the crusading period. Media in category ibn alathir the following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. The following source was written around 1220 ce by ibn alathir, a muslim historian and scholar living in mosul or baghdad. Ibn alathir, abu alhasan ali izz aldin oxford islamic. Doc how does ibn alathir explain the success of the. His chief work was a history of the world, alkamil fi altarikh the complete history. For some years i continued averse from mentioning this event, deeming it so horrible that i. Ibn alathir was a contemporary and member of the retinue of saladin, the kurdish muslim general who captured jerusalem from the crusaders and massively. On the tatars, 12201221ce for some years i continued averse from mentioning this event, deeming it so. For some years i continued averse from mentioning this event, deeming it so horrible that i shrank from recording it and ever withdrawing one foot as i advanced the other.
Historical sources of mongol history 0122 was a center of a vibrant jewish community and had a jewish higher education college which rashid could have attended jackson, 2012. As i have already mentioned, studies of the formation and evolution of islamic art. A significant number of muslims rejected the rule of. Islamic west in particular, the mongols were the harbingers of. Doc how does ibn alathir explain the success of the mongol. The islamisation of the steppe openedition journals. Selections from tarikh al kamil by ibn alathir english. In the perfect history, alathir calls the mongols the. He was for a time with saladins army in syria and later lived in aleppo and damascus. Born in 1160, ibn alathir wrote a history of the world up to 1232, the year before his death. To whom, indeed, can it be easy to write the announcement of the deathblow of islam and the muslims, or who is he on whom the. The mongols in persia ibn alathir on the tatars 1220. The complete history is a classic islamic history book written by ali ibn alathir.
Ibn alathir s account details what he knows or thinks he knows about the mongols treatment of conquered peoples, their culture, and their impact on the societies they conquered. How does ibn alathir explain the success of the mongol conquests. Ibn alathir spent a scholarly life in mosul, but often visited baghdad. Believed history had both religious and mundane value and that moral lessons could be drawn from it to reform kingdoms. From a literary family with two brothers who were also historians and writers, ibn alathir has become one of the authorities on the muslim world for historians, particularly for the time period from the seljuk turk invasion in the late eleventh century to the mongol invasions of the thirteenth. Genghis khan first set about uniting the various turkic and mongol tribes of central asia under his authority. The great historian ibn khaldun also discusses the mongols rise and. The mongol catastrophe and islams disrupted archaeological record.