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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
The first session whose headship al-Dhahabi assumed was a reading circle in the Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, in the first gallery of Zakariyya, in place of the blind reciter Shams al-Din al-Marraqi, in Muharram 700, shortly after his return from his Egyptian journey 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Dhahabi
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi gradually loses his sight, 743/1342· Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Al-Dhahabi is born at Damascus, 673/1274· Death of Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi at Damascus, 748/1348· Ghazan's devastation of Syria, 699· Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH
Sources
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 3/338
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-dhahabi-jami-session-700/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.