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ابن القلانسي

ابن القلانسي

c. February 1160 CE · Rabi' I 555 AH

Damascus

Al-Umayd Ibn al-Qalanisi Abu Ya'la Hamza ibn Arshad al-Tamimi of Damascus, chancery man and author of the Tarikh Dimashq which he carried down to the year 555; he transmitted from Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarayini, twice held the city's headship, and died in Rabi' I 555 at eighty-odd 1.

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Roles
Historian · writer
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

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Damascus

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Summary

Al-'Amid Ibn al-Qalanisi, Abu Ya'la Hamza b. Arshad al-Tamimi al-Dimashqi the katib, author of the Tarikh Dimashq that ends in 555; he transmitted from Sahl b. Bishr al-Isfara'ini, held the town's headship twice, and also sought the path; he died in Rabi' I 555, aged eighty-something. 1

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People and things also explored

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 654
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the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)

The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance.