At a glance
- Roles
- writer · Historian
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Life in time
Summary
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Safi al-Din Abi al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Nafis al-Din Abi al-Raja Hamid al-Isfahani, known as Ibn Sabiq al-Izz, with the title Imad al-Din al-Katib 1.
With Salah al-Din
He was secretary to Sultan Salah al-Din. His well-known works include al-Barq al-Shami on the history of the Nurid state, al-Fath al-Qussi fi al-Fath al-Qudsi on Salah al-Din's conquests, and Kharidat al-Qasr wa Jaridat al-Asr on the poets of his age 1. He kept his position and standing until Sultan Salah al-Din died. Then his affairs were disrupted, and he turned to his home and devoted himself to writing 1.
Death
He was born on Monday, 2 Jumada al-Akhira, or in Sha'ban according to another account, in 519 AH in Isfahan, and he died in Damascus on Monday, the first day of Ramadan 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
Ibn 'Asakir· Damascus· Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq· Imad al-Din al-Isfahani sees the Tarikh Madinat Dimashq at seventy volumes, 562/1167
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Imad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/imad-al-din-al-katib-al-isfahani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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