Shams al-Din ibn al-Mawsili

شمس الدين ابن الموصلي

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Mosul

Draft card for Shams al-Din ibn al-Mawsili, the fourteenth-century jurist, poet and philologist, d. 1372; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar · Poet
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abapus-i Veli · Abd al-Karim al-Jili · Abd al-Mun'im ibn al-Faras al-Andalusi (Abu Muhammad, Maliki jurist) · Abd al-Rahim al-Iraqi · Ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li (Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud)

In space

Mosul

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

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Lived in
Mosul

People and things also explored

Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Adud al-Dawla Seizes the Realm of the Banu Hamdan· Anglo-Turkish War (1918–1923)· Babanzade Rebellions (1806–1812)· Battle of al-Khazir· Battle of Mosul· Battle of Mosul· Conquest of Mosul

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Shams al-Din ibn al-Mawsili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shams-al-din-ibn-al-mawsili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Related

Great Mosque of al-Nuri

A mosque in Mosul, dated to 1172 CE.