Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir

Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir
Emir of Mosul
Personal details
Born 1149
Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, Turkey
Died 1210
Mosul
Relatives

Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1149–1210)[1] was a Kurdish historian, biographer and lexicographer.[2]

Majd ad-Din was the brother of Ali ibn al-Athir and Diyā' ad-Dīn, also historian. He was emir of Mosul and lasted more than his brothers. He was a distinguished translator of the islamic language.

His dictionary Kitāb an-Ni/zdya[3] was published in El Cairo in 1893, and his dictionary Kitāb ul-Murassa, about names of different families, was published by Ferdinand Seybold in Weimar in 1896.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Today in Islamic History (30th of Zil-Hijjah)". Radio Islam. November 15, 2012. Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Gunter, Michael M. (January 22, 2009). "The A to Z of the Kurds". Kurdish historian and biographer Ibn al-Athir wrote in Arabic... Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8108-6334-7.
  3. ↑ Ibn Athir, Majd ad-Dīn (1843). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. 1. Translated by De Slane, Bn. Mac Guckin. p. 551.
  4. ↑ Weimar 1896.
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