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Ibn Al-'Amid (other)
Ibn al-ʿAmīd may refer to: *two Buyid viziers, father and son: *: Abu'l-Fadl ibn al-Amid (died 970) *: Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Amid (died 977) *members of the Coptic Banū al-ʿAmīd family: *: Al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd the Elder (died 1273), historian *: Al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd the Younger (died after 1398), theologian {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu'l-Fadl Ibn Al-Amid
Abu 'l-Fadl Muhammad ibn Abi Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Katib, commonly known after his father as Ibn al-'Amid (died 970) was a Persian statesman who served as the ''vizier'' of the Buyid ruler Rukn al-Dawla for thirty years, from 940 until his death in 970. His son, , also called Ibn al-'Amid, succeeded him in his office. Biography Abu 'l-Fadl was from a low-class family. He was the son of a wheat merchant from Qom, who served as a '' kātib'' in Khurasan and later attained the rank of ''ʿamīd''. In 933, he was the vizier of Vushmgir. Abu 'l-Fadl's father was later taken captive by the Samanids. He was assassinated at Isfahan around 935. Abu 'l-Fadl is first mentioned in 940, when the Buyid ruler Rukn al-Dawla, who greatly favoured him, appointed him as his vizier. In 948, Abu 'l-Fadl served as the tutor of Rukn al-Dawla's son 'Adud al-Dawla. In c. 955, a son of Abu 'l-Fadl's father's former overlord, Muhammad ibn Makan, marched towards the domains of Rukn al-Dawla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu'l-Fath Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Al-Amid
Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, () was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. His major work is ''Kitab al-Ta'rikh'' (). Kitab al-Ta'rikh This work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas, Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is an Arabic compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from Adam to Mohammed. This book is the oldest and most complete Samaritan work that has survived until the present day. References Further reading * Paul Stenhouse''The Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu 'l-Fath''(Sydney, Mandelbaum, 1985). Publisher description: "Based on an analysis of all the important MSS and accompanied by copious notes on the Arabic original, this work is the first translation of the whole of this most important of the Samaritan chronicles into English." * ''Abulfathi annales Samaritani'' by Eduard Vilmar (Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Makīn Jirjis Ibn Al-ʿAmīd The Elder
Jirjis al-Makīn (; 1206–after 1280, maybe 1293), known by his ''nasab'' Ibn al-ʿAmīd (), was a Coptic Christian historian who wrote in Arabic. His name is sometimes anglicised as George Elmacin (). Life Several details about his ancestors and some biographical elements are provided in his own history. He is also mentioned in the biographical dictionary of Ibn al-Ṣuqāʿī (d. 1325) and in a polemical tract by Ibn al-Wāsiṭī (d. 1312). He was born in Cairo in Ayyubid Egypt on February 18, 1206. His full name in Arabic was Jirjis (George) ibn al-ʿAmīd Abī l-Yāsir ibn Abī l-Makārim ibn Abī l-Ṭayyib al-Makīn ("the Powerful One"). His great-grandfather was a merchant from Tikrit in Iraq who settled in Egypt. He was a Coptic Christian, and held high office in the military ('' dīwān al-jaysh'') in Damascus. Such a position carried risks. He was twice imprisoned, possibly because of links to the unrest in Syria at the time of the Mongol invasion; in one case for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
