Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
"Tarikh Madinat Dimashq" (The History of the City of Damascus) is the great history by Ibn Asakir al-Dimashqi. Ibn al-Imad reports that it runs to eight hundred volumes in eighty books. 1
Author: Ibn Asakir. The details of his method and his biographies need a further source.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 719
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islam.museum contributors. “Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/tarikh-dimashq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.