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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
Al-Dhahabi composed his greatest work, Tarikh al-Islam, down to the year 700 on the model of Ibn al-Jawzi's al-Muntazam, in seventy decadal 'classes', pairing each year's events with the obituaries of its dead 1. He abridged it six times — among them Siyar A'lam al-Nubala', Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, al-Ibar and Duwal al-Islam — and wrote on rijal Mizan al-I'tidal and al-Mushtabih, besides extracting his great, small and select Mu'jam of his hadith teachers 2 3.
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 heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· 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
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 215
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 216
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 3/336-337
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-dhahabi-tarikh-islam-730/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.