At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
History-writing and social thoughtScripture and its sciences
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Mas'ud ibn Musa ibn Bashkuwal, an Andalusian historian and hadith scholar, author of al-Sila (The Connection), a collection of biographies of the scholars of al-Andalus. 1
He was born in 494 AH (1101 CE) and died in 578 AH (1183 CE), according to report. The sources attribute to him Judges of Córdoba. 2
Connections
- Authored
- Akhbar Qudat Qurtuba
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din· Akhbar Qudat Qurtuba· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Bashkuwal, Khalaf ibn Abd al-Malik”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-bashkuwal-khalaf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.