The zenith of Ibn al-Jawzi's career at Baghdad, 574/1178–9

ذروة مكانة ابن الجوزي في بغداد سنة ٥٧٤هـ

c. 1178 CE · 574 AH

Baghdad

The year 574/1178–9 marked the zenith of Ibn al-Jawzi's career at Baghdad: he was directing five madrasas and had already written more than a hundred and fifty works, enjoying excellent relations with the caliph al-Mustadi', the vizier, the ṣāḥib al-makhzin and the chief ʿulamāʾ; in 570 the caliph had a dais (dakka) erected for him in the Palace mosque and he taught in two new madrasas, and under his influence Hanbalism enjoyed great popular prestige in Baghdad 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

117011801190 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Baghdad

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Overview

In 574/1178–9 Ibn al-Jawzi stood at the zenith of his career: five madrasas under his direction, more than 150 works written, and a dais the caliph al-Mustadi' had erected for him in the Palace mosque in 570 1.

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Ibn al-Jawzi
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Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Mustadi bi-Amr Allah al-Hasan ibn al-Mustanjid

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Jawzi's Ashura sermon, 568/1172· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins· death of the caliph al-Mustanjid — al-Mustaḍīʾ succeeds· Ibn al-Jawzi begins his career under the caliph al-Muktafi· Ibn al-Jawzi succeeds Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani in his two madrasas· Ibn al-Jawzi released and returns to Baghdad, 595/1198–9

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 783-784
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Ibn al-Jawzi's Ashura sermon, 568/1172

On 10 Muharram 568 / 1 September 1172 — the day of Ashura — Ibn al-Jawzi preached a popular exhortation before a very large crowd; in the same year the caliph al-Mustadi authorised him to preach a series of sermons in the caliph's presence at the Badr gate.