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Al-Safadi is born at Safad, 696/1297

ولادة الصفدي بصفد، ٦٩٦هـ

c. 1297 CE · 696 AH

Safad

Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi was born at Safad, his family's home town, about 696/1297; his father, the amir Izz al-Din Aybak, was of Turkic origin and showed no concern for the boy's religious-legal studies until he turned twenty, whereupon the youth sought learning on his own 1 2.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

1280129013001310 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Safad

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Summary

Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi was born at Safad, his family's home town, about 696/1297; his father, the amir Izz al-Din Aybak, was of Turkic origin and showed no concern for the boy's religious-legal studies until he turned twenty, whereupon the youth sought learning on his own 1 2.

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Had participant
Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi
Occurred at
Safad
During the reign of
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

People and things also explored

Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326· Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi· Safad· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 759
  2. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , vol. 2 p. 88
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Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326

Al-Safadi's gifts as a stylist and calligrapher opened government service to him: he first held kitabat al-darj at Safad, then at Cairo; he conducted kitabat al-sirr at Aleppo for a time between 723/1323 and 726/1326, and briefly at al-Rahba toward the end of the decade, while shuttling between the capitals Damascus and Cairo.