At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- 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-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn Wasil, qadi of Hama and historian; an imam versed in many sciences, especially the rational ones, exceedingly intelligent, constant in study and reflection on knowledge until he would lose awareness of who sat with him and of his own state; he wrote many works in the two usuls, wisdom, logic, prosody, medicine and the literary arts. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Hama
People and things also explored
al-Kamil takes Hama· Saladin takes Homs and Hama· Frankish siege of Hama· al-Malik al-Mansur, lord of Hama· al-Malik al-Mansur II of Hama· al-Malik al-Muzaffar, last king of Hama· al-Zaki al-Barzali· Ibn Abi al-Dam al-Hamawi
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 766-767
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Wasil, qadi and historian of Hama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-wasil/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.