Ibn al-Jawzi released and returns to Baghdad, 595/1198–9

إطلاق سراح ابن الجوزي وعودته إلى بغداد سنة ٥٩٥هـ

c. 1198 CE · 595 AH

Baghdad

Ibn al-Jawzi was set free from his exile at Wasit in 595/1198–9 on the intervention of the caliph al-Nasir's mother, a very devout woman whose sympathy had been gained by one of the preacher's sons, the shaykh Muhyi al-Din Yusuf, who was to make his career in the service of the caliphate. Ibn al-Jawzi made a triumphant return to Baghdad, but died soon after, in 597 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

In space

Baghdad

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Overview

Ibn al-Jawzi was freed in 595/1198–9 through the caliph's mother, won over by his son Muhyi al-Din Yusuf; he made a triumphant return to Baghdad and died soon after, in 597 1.

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Ibn al-Jawzi
Occurred at
Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

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death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· Baghdad· Burning of the Books of Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and His Condemnation as a Fasiq in 603· Civil disturbances in Baghdad· the caliph army routed by Sultan Tughril· Death of caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah· Death of caliph al-Nasir's son· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 784
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death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597

In Ramadan died Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Jawzi — the Hanbali preacher and historian of al-Muntazam whose works ran to the hundreds, the most famous waiz of the age.