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– 1282), better known a, was a 13th century Islamic scholar who compiled the celebrated of scholars and important men in Muslim history, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān wa-Anbāʾ Abnāʾ az-Zamān ('Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch')

Khallikān was born in on September 22, 1211 (11 Rabī’ al-Thānī, 608), into a respectable family that claimed descent from an dynasty of origin His primary studies took him from Arbil, to and to before he took up in and then in , where he settled He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian and grammarian An early biographer described him as "a pious man, virtuous, and learned; amiable in temper, in conversation serious and instructive. His exterior was highly prepossessing, his countenance handsome and his manners engaging.

He married in 125 and was assistant to the chief judge iuntil 1261, when he assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus He lost this position in 1271 and returned to Egypt, where he taught until being reinstated as judge in Damascus in 1278 He retired in 128 and died in Damascus on October 30, 1282 (Saturday, 26th of Rajab 681).

Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch

Beginning in 1256, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch, an eight-volume biographical reference dictionary of Islamic scholarship and literature was completed in 1274. Khallikān documented the lives of notable cultural figures, the celebrated writers, scientists, religious and legal scholars. Complementary to the popular religio-political biographies of the Prophet Muhammad and of the caliphs, it is primarily a literary work. An English translation by William McGuckin de Slane, in four volumes, published between 1801–1878, runs to over 2,700 pages. The British scholar Reynold A. Nicholson called it the "best general biography ever written".

Notes

References

1. ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Ibn Khallikān". 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
2. Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān
3. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary
4. "Ibn Khallikan". Humanistic Texts.org. Archived from the original on October 20, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
5. Ludwig W. Adamec (2009), Historical Dictionary of Islam, p.139. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810861615.

Bibliography

• Ibn Khallikan (1842–1871). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Translated from the Arabic (4 vols.). Translated by Baron Mac Guckin de Slane. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

• 1211 births
• 1282 deaths
• 13th-century Muslim theologians
• Grammarians of Arabic
• Barmakids
• Hadith scholars
• Iraqi genealogists
• Muslim encyclopedists
• Muslim historians of Islam
• People from Damascus
• People from Erbil
• Shafi'is