Ibn al-Dahan · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Jurist · Scholar · writer
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Summary

Abu Shuja' Muhammad b. 'Ali b. Shu'ayb, known as Ibn al-Dahan, styled Fakhr al-Din — the Baghdadi faraid-master, reckoner and adib; he moved from Baghdad to Mosul, kept company with the vizier Jamal al-Din al-Isfahani, then entered Sultan Salah al-Din's service who gave him the diwan of Mayyafariqin; he entered Damascus, travelled to Egypt in 586, returned and made Damascus home. ¹

Works

He has the setting-out of the faraid tables, a delicate Gharib al-hadith in sixteen volumes, and a gathered history; his fine poetry was praised by Ibn al-Mustawfi in the history of Irbil and by al-'Imad al-Katib in the Kharida. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Dahan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-dahan-al-faridi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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