Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khazrajī (died 1258 AD ), also known as Ibn al-Khazrajī, was an

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scholar and historian of the late

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period. A member of the Banū Khazraj and a native of

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, he taught ''

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'' in

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. His work, which survives only in part, is based largely on that of

Sibt ibn al-Jawzi Shams al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn Kizoghlu (c. 581AH/1185–654AH/1256), famously known as Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī ( ar, سبط ابن الجوزي ) was a notable preacher and historian. Title He is the grandson of the great Hanbali scholar A ...

. It is known by the title ''Taʾrīkh al-Dawlat al-Akrād wal-Atrāk'' ("History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire"). It is arranged on a year-by-year basis and in each year a prominent jurist, poet or similar who died that year is celebrated with anecdotes.Hafez, cited in . In its independent passages, it is a valuable source of Ayyubid history. It can be found in the manuscript Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa 695.

Editions

*Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris Abd al-Aziz al-Ansari al-Khazraji, ''History of the Kurdish and Turkish Empire (1176–1200)''. Partial English translation from the Arabic with annotations by Fahmy Hafez. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1985.

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* * * * {{refend 1258 deaths Historians from the Ayyubid Sultanate People from Tlemcen 13th-century Egyptian historians