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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi is born at al-Ma'qiliyya outside Aleppo, 10 Rabi' II 654/1256

ولادة جمال الدين المزي بالمعقلية بظاهر حلب، ١٠ ربيع الآخر ٦٥٤هـ

c. 7 May 1256 CE · 10 Rabi' II 654 AH

Aleppo

Jamal al-Din Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn al-Zaki Abd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-Zahr al-Quda'i al-Kalbi al-Mizzi was born on 10 Rabi' II 654 outside Aleppo 1; Ibn Hajar gives the spot as al-Ma'qiliyya 2, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam has him born near Aleppo of Arab stock in 654/1256 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

1240125012601270 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Aleppo

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Summary

Jamal al-Din Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn al-Zaki Abd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-Zahr al-Quda'i al-Kalbi al-Mizzi was born on 10 Rabi' II 654 outside Aleppo 1; Ibn Hajar gives the spot as al-Ma'qiliyya 2, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam records him born near Aleppo of Arab stock 3.

Upbringing

As a child he moved with his parents to al-Mizza, a prosperous village just outside Damascus, where he received a traditional education in Qur'an and some fiqh 3; he memorised the Qur'an and studied Shafi'i fiqh for a time 4.

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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
Occurred at
Aleppo
During the reign of
al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad

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The Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti dies at Aleppo, Ramadan 646/1248· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· Aleppo· Abu Dawud's wider journey: Egypt, the Jazira, Harran and Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 486
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 4/457
  3. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 240
  4. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 488
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The Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti dies at Aleppo, Ramadan 646/1248

The vizier al-Qadi al-Akram Jamal al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf al-Shaybani al-Qifti died in Ramadan 646/1248-9; he had assembled a library no one else had matched, kept neither house nor wife, and bequeathed his books — worth fifty thousand dinars — to al-Malik al-Nasir of Aleppo.