Mubarak Ibn Ahmad Sharaf al-Din Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Lakhmi al-Irbili (, b. 1169 – d. 1239), a famous

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historian of

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, who was born in the ancient

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. He wrote in several areas, history, literature and language. His masterpiece is a four volumes book of (History of Erbil).

Biography

He was born in the Castle of

and grew up in the house of the leadership and science, his father and uncle were his teachers when he began his education, and his father encouraged him to go to the scholars of Erbil to continue his education. He studied rhetoric, and learned everything related to it, he was also interested in science of language and literature. He was a poet and minister in Erbil, he was the

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of Muzaffar ad-Din Gökböri, governor of Erbil in the reign of Sultan

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, and subsequently independent ruler of Erbil. In the year 1236, after the death of Gökböri, Ibn al-Mustawfi moved to Mosul following the Mongol sacking of Erbil, and lived there until his death in 1239.

List of works

* ''Tārīkh Irbil: al-musammā Nabāhat al-balad al-Khāmil bi-man waradahu min al-amāthil,'' four volumes. * ''Kitab al-Nizam fi shi'ar al-Mutanabbi wa abi Tammam,'' ten volumes. * ''Kitab ithbat al-muhasaal fi nisbet abyat al-mufasaal,'' two volumes. * ''Kitab sr al-Sanaah'' * ''Kitab aba qimash,'' a collection a lot of literature and anecdotes. * ''Kitab Ahkam al-Nijoom'' * He also wrote a collection of poems. Ahmad al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love

References

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