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IBN ATHTR , the See also:family name of three See also:brothers, all famous in Arabian literature, See also:born at Jazirat ibn 'See also:Umar in See also:Kurdistan. The eldest See also:brother, known as MAJD UD-DiN (1149-1210), was See also:long in the service of the See also:amir of See also:Mosul, and was an See also:earnest student of tradition and See also:language. His See also:dictionary of traditions (Kitdb un-Nihdya) was published at See also:Cairo (1893), and his dictionary of family names (Kitdb ul-Murassa') has been edited by Seybold (See also:Weimar, 1896). The youngest brother, known as DIVA UD-DIN (1163-1239), served See also:Saladin from 1191 on, then his son, al-Malik ul-Afdal, and was afterwards in See also:Egypt, See also:Samosata, See also:Aleppo, Mosul and See also:Bagdad. He was one of the most famous aesthetic and stylistic critics in Arabian literature. His Kitdb ul-Mathal, published in Bulaq in 1865 (cf. See also:Journal of the See also:German See also:Oriental Society, See also:xxxv. 148, and See also:Goldziher's 1 The name " See also:Ibis was selected as the See also:title of an ornithological See also:magazine. frequently referred to in this and other articles, which made its first See also:appearance in 1859. Abhandlungen, i. 161 sqq.), contains some very See also:independent See also:criticism of See also:ancient and See also:modern Arabic See also:verse. Some of his letters have been published by D. S.

Margoliouth " On the Royal See also:

Correspondence of Diya ed-Din el-Jazari " in the Actes du dixihme congas See also:international See also:des orientalistes, See also:sect. 3, pp. 7-21. The brother best known by the See also:simple name of Ibn Athir was See also:ABU-L-See also:HASAN 'IZZUDDIN MAHOMMED IBN UL-ATHIR (116o-1234), who devoted himself to the study of See also:history and tradition. At the See also:age of twenty-one he settled with his See also:father in Mosul and continued his studies there. In the service of the amir for many years, he visited Bagdad and See also:Jerusalem and later Aleppo and See also:Damascus. He died in Mosul. His See also:great history, the Kamil, extends to the See also:year 1231; it has been edited by C. J. Tornberg, Ibn al-Athiri Chronicon quod perfectissimum inscribitur (14 vols., See also:Leiden, 1851-1876), and has been published in 12 vols. in Cairo (1873 and 1886). The first See also:part of this See also:work up to A.H. 310 (A.D.

923) is an See also:

abbreviation of the work of See also:Tabari (q.v.) with additions. Ibn Athir also wrote a history of the Atabegs of Mosul, published in the Recueil des historiens des croisades (vol. ii., See also:Paris); a work (Usd ul-Ghdba), giving an See also:account of 7500 companions of See also:Mahomet (5 vols., Cairo, 1863), and a compendium (the Lubab) of Sam'See also:ani's Kitdb ul-Anskb (cf. F. Wustenfeld's Specimen el-Lobabi, See also:Gottingen, 1835). (G. W.

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