At a glance
- Roles
- philologist · calligrapher
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali b. 'Abd al-Rahim b. al-Hasan b. 'Abd al-Malik, known as Ibn al-'Assar the philologist; he read adab under al-Sharif Abu'l-Sa'adat Ibn al-Shajari and Abu Mansur Ibn al-Jawaliqi, excelled in his art and taught people for a time, then journeyed to Egypt and met Abu Muhammad Ibn Burri and al-Muwaffaq b. al-Khallal, the chancery secretary. 1
His script
He knew Abu'l-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi's diwan generally and by transmission, copied the rarities of Khurasan, Syria and Egypt, and wrote out in his hand many books of adab and Arab poetry — his style was fine and people competed for his script and bid it high. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Assar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-assar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.