Al-Tha'alibi returns to Nishapur, probably by way of Herat, c. 412/1022

عودة الثعالبي عبر هراة إلى نيسابور، نحو ٤١٢هـ

c. 1022 CE · c. 412 AH

هراة → Nishapur

Al-Tha'alibi returned from Ghazna to Nishapur, probably by way of Herat, and spent his later years there 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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Al-Tha'alibi returned from Ghazna to Nishapur, probably by way of Herat, and spent his later years there 1.

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Al-Tha'alibi is born at Nishapur, 350/961· Al-Tha'alibi dies at Nishapur, 429/1038· Ibn 'Asakir's second great journey east, 529-533/1135-1139· Al-Sam'ani's third journey with his son 'Abd al-Rahim to Transoxiana, 549-552/1154-1157· Al-Tha'alibi studies adab under Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi, c. 375/985· Al-Tha'alibi the schoolmaster and his Mikali patrons, c. 380/990· Al-Tha'alibi composes the Tatimmat al-Yatima late in life, c. 420/1029· al-Tha'alibi

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 450-451
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Al-Tha'alibi is born at Nishapur, 350/961

Abu Mansur Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Tha'alibi was born in 350 AH at Nishapur, the city that in his generation became a cultural rival to Baghdad; Ibn al-Imad notes he lived eighty years.