At a glance
- Roles
- Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Azraqi, a Meccan historian of the third century AH, who wrote on the reports and monuments of Mecca. 1
The dates of his birth and death are not recorded in the museum's data, and need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.526-528
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Azraqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-azraqi-muhammad-ibn-abd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.