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Ibn al-Jawzi arrested and exiled to Wasit, 590/1194

اعتقال ابن الجوزي ونفيه إلى واسط سنة ٥٩٠هـ

1194 CE · 590 AH

Wasit

The dismissal and arrest of the Hanbali vizier Ibn Yunus and the appointment of the Shafiʿi Ibn al-Nasir to the vizierate in 590/1194 marked the beginning of Ibn al-Jawzi's disgrace — he had written, at a date not known precisely, a refutation of al-Nasir's policy. In the same year he was arrested, without good reason it is said, put under the guard of a Shiʿi and sent to live under house arrest at Wasit, where he remained in exile for five years 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Wasit

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In 590/1194 the vizier Ibn Yunus was dismissed and Ibn al-Jawzi was arrested, without good reason it is said, and sent to house arrest at Wasit, where he remained in exile for five years 1.

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

People and things also explored

death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· Ibn al-Jawzi released and returns to Baghdad, 595/1198–9· The Killing of the Batiniyya in Wasit· Baghdad· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· Burning of the Books of Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and His Condemnation as a Fasiq in 603

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.