At a glance
- Roles
- adib · philologist
- 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
Overview
Ibn al-Jubrani, a man of letters and philology and teacher of al-Shihab al-Shawwa'. He is attributed to the village of Jubrin Qursatayya in the district of Azaz, and lived in Aleppo. Ibn Khallikan in Wafayat al-A'yan says that he was well versed in literature and that language predominated in him. 1
He had a teaching position in the great mosque of Aleppo, in the eastern enclosure. Ibn Khallikan heard him speak on the rule of the triliteral verbs that begin with a waw. Ibn Khallikan relays from Ibn al-Sha'ar that he knew the sciences of the Qur'an, language and grammar, and that he gathered wealth from which no one benefited. 1
He was born on 22 Shawwal 561 AH and died in Aleppo on 7 Rajab 628 AH, and was buried on the slope of Mount Jawshan. The Gregorian conversion is derived and approximate. 1
Connections
- Taught
- Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa
- Lived in
- Aleppo
People and things also explored
Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa· Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency· The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar· Battle of Azaz· Byzantine capture of Aleppo
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p. 237
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن الجبراني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-jubrani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.