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Al-Yunini
Quṭb al-Dīn Abu ʾl-Fatḥ Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūnīnī (1242–1326) was a Syrian historian and religious scholar of the Ḥanbalī school of jurisprudence. He wrote the ''Dhayl Mirʾāt al-zamān'', a continuation of the ''Mirʾāt al-zamān'' of Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī. Life Mūsā was born on 7 August 1242 in Damascus. His family claimed descent from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and originally came from the village of Yūnīn, hence his ''nisba'' al-Yūnīnī. His father was Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh and his mother Zayn al-ʿArab bint Naṣr Allāh. His early studies took place in Baalbek and Damascus. In 1260, his father died and elder brother ʿAlī sent him to Egypt to continue his education. In 1275, he performed the '' Ḥajj'' to Mecca. He visited Egypt in 1276–1277. In 1281, al-Yūnīnī and a fellow scholar enlisted in the war against the Mongol invasion of Syria. His friend died in the battle of Homs. Passing throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūnīn
Younine ( ar, يونين, Yūnīn), also spelled Yunin, is a municipality in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in northeastern Lebanon. It is located approximately east of the national capital Beirut, and northeast of the governorate capital of Baalbek. Its average elevation is above sea level and its jurisdiction covers 7,759 hectares. It had 6,557 registered voters in 2010. Its inhabitants are Shia Muslims. History Younine was the ancestral village of the 13th-century Mamluk hadith scholars Abd Allah al-Yunini (d. 1220) and Qutb al-Din Musa ibn Muhammad al-Yunini al-Hanbali of Damascus. Qutb al-Din also owned a residence in the village. At the time Younine also contained a Sufi lodge. The archer Husayn al-Yunini also hailed from Younine. In 1838, Eli Smith noted ''Yunin'' as a Metawileh village in the Baalbek Baalbek (; ar, بَعْلَبَكّ, Baʿlabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilad Al-Sham
Bilad al-Sham ( ar, بِلَاد الشَّام, Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates. It roughly corresponded with the Byzantine Diocese of the East, conquered by the Muslims in 634–647. Under the Umayyads (661–750) Bilad al-Sham was the metropolitan province of the Caliphate and different localities throughout the province served as the seats of the Umayyad caliphs and princes. Bilad al-Sham was first organized into the four '' ajnad'' (military districts; singular ''jund'') of Filastin (Palestine), al-Urdunn (Jordan), Dimashq (Damascus), and Hims (Homs), between 637 and 640 by Caliph Umar following the Muslim conquest. The ''jund'' of Qinnasrin was created out of the northern part of Hims by caliphs Mu'awiya I () or Yazid I (). The Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) was made an independent province from the Mesopotamian part of Qinnasrin by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
