At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn Qatral, chief qadi; he held the judgeship of 'Umayd for a time, and on the day the Franks took 'Umayd in 609 he was a captive in their hands — he escaped, travelled to al-Andalus, and held the qada' of Jativa, then Cordoba, then finally Fez; he died at Marrakesh aged eighty-eight. 1
Connections
- Lived in
- Cordoba· Shatiba (Xàtiva)· Fez
- Died in
- Marrakesh
People and things also explored
ابن رشد الحفيد· Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace· al-Qarawiyyin mosque· The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)· Conquest of Cordoba· Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 261
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Qatral”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-qatral/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.