At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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In space
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Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn 'Asakir
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud· Nur al-Din takes Damascus and builds the first Dar al-Hadith for Ibn 'Asakir, 549/1154· Ibn 'Asakir dies and is buried at Bab al-Saghir, 11 Rajab 571/25 January 1176· Ibn 'Asakir writes Fadl 'Asqalan and the Arba'in on jihad after the fall of Ascalon, 548/1153· Ibn 'Asakir's first hadith hearings under his brother al-Sa'in at the Umayyad Mosque, c. 505/1111· Ibn 'Asakir returns to Damascus in the year of Taj al-Mulk Buri's assassination, 525/1131· Ibn 'Asakir returns to Damascus and begins public dictation, 533-535/1139-1141· Imad al-Din al-Isfahani sees the Tarikh Madinat Dimashq at seventy volumes, 562/1167
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 71
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 745
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn 'Asakir is born in Damascus at the opening of 499/1105”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-asakir-born-499/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.
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