Ibn al-Athir Najm al-Din

ابن الأثير نجم الدين

1336 CE · 737 AH

Mosul

The chancery writer Najm al-Din Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Sa'id al-Jazari al-Shaybani, of the Ibn al-Athir family; known for the art of insha' (official letter-writing) and served the chanceries of his day at Mosul.

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Roles
writer · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Khayr al-'Ala'i al-Muqaddisi · Abu Tahir al-Khujandi of Medina · Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Ahmadi Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Khidr · al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah

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Mosul

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Literature

Place in the story

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Sunni (transmitted)

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Overview

Najm al-Din Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Sa'id al-Shaybani al-Jazari, a secretary from the lineage of Ibn al-Athir. He was known for the art of epistolary composition, and worked in the chanceries of his age in Mosul. He died in 737 AH (1336 CE). 1

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Mosul

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-Din· Ibn al-Athir Imad al-Din· Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Mosul· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· death of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd — Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II succeeds in Mosul

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-Din

The man of letters Diya' al-Din Abu al-Fath Nasr Allah ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, third of the Ibn al-Athir brothers; author of 'al-Mathal al-Sa'ir fi Adab al-Katib wa-l-Sha'ir' on the craft of the pen, and served the Atabeg chanceries of Mosul.