At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- 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
sufi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ghanim b. 'Asakir the ascetic, one of God's hidden, godfearing servants; born at Burin near Nablus, he settled at Jerusalem the year Sultan Salah al-Din delivered it from the Franks in 583, roamed Syria, saw the righteous, and preferred obscurity — a man of spiritual states. 1
Seclusion and death
His son 'Abdallah said: he secluded himself beneath the Rock in the Solomon vaults for seven years, then kept company with Shaykh 'Abdallah al-Irmawi the rest of his life — the two living together; he died on the first of Sha'ban and was buried at the foot of Qasyun. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Mosque of Omar· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 155
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ghanim ibn Asakir al-Maqdisi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ghanim-ibn-asakir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.