At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Historian
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
'Ali b. Aybak, the Damascene poet; famous for his verse, with a grasp of history — he compiled a chronicle of his age's events — and Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani gave him ijaza 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 17
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ali ibn Aybak, the Damascene poet”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-aybak-dimashqi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.