Ibn ʿIdhārī
Abū l-ʿAbbās Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn ʿIdhārī al-Marrākuschī ( Arabic أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد ابن عذاري المراكشي; d. 1312–1313 or later) was an Arab historian from the Maghreb .
Life
Little is known of Ibn ʿIdhari's life. His family had emigrated from Al-Andalus to the Maghreb . He himself lived in the second half of the 13th century and in the first quarter of the 14th century and was temporarily city commander of Fez .
al-Bayan al-mughrib
Ibn ʿIdhārī is the author of the three-volume Arabic-language work al-Bayān al-mughrib /البيان المغرب, a history of the Maghreb (Morocco and Algeria) and Andalusia that he wrote in Marrakech . It begins with the Islamic conquest of Egypt and ends with the fall of the Almohads . An older edition of the work comes from Reinhart Dozy , the newer from GS Colin and É. Lévi-Provençal is the basis.
expenditure
- al-Bayān al-muġrib fī aḫbār al-Andalus wal-Maġrib . Ed. GS Colin & É. Levi Provençal . Brill, Leiden 1948 ( Photo on the title page of Volume 1 )
Published in Spanish translation:
- Al-Marrakusi Ibn I̓dari (translated by Ambrosio Huici Miranda): Colección de crónicas árabes de la Reconquista. vol. 2 et 3, Marroquí, 1953-4
- Al-Marrakusi Ibn I̓dari (translated by Ambrosio Huici Miranda): al-Bayān al-Mugrib: Nuevos fragmentos almorávides y almohades. Anubar Ediciones, 1963
References and footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibn ʿIdhārī |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abū l-ʿAbbās Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn ʿIdhārī al-Marrākuschī (full name); أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد ابن عذاري المراكشي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arab historian and historian from the Maghreb |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1312 |