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Ibn Bashkuwāl
(1,793 words)
Abū l-Qāsim Khalaf b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Masʿūd b. Mūsà b. Bashkuwāl (b. Yūsuf) b. Dāḥa b. Dāka b. Naṣr b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Wāqid al-Anṣārī, known as
Ibn Bashkuwāl (494–578/1101–1183), was born in Córdoba. He was a historian and traditionist, renowned mainly for his
Kitāb al-ṣila, a biographic dictionary of Andalusī scholars from the era of the Taifas (400–79/1010–86), the Almoravids (r. 454–541/1062–1147), and the advent of Almohad rule (524–668/1130–1269). Little is known of his life, and what is known is limited to a single biography by the Andalusī author Ibn al-…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ, al-Yaḥṣubī
(581 words)
ʿĪsā b. Saʿīd
al-Yaḥṣubī Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ (d. 397/1006) was a secretary and Andalusī
wazīr during the reign of the Umayyad Hishām II al-Muʾayyad bi-llāh (r. 366–99/976–1009 and 400–3/1010–3), when al-Manṣūr (Almanzor, d. 392/1002) and then his son al-Muẓaffar (r. 392–9/1002–8) served as
ḥājibs (chamberlains) and held actual power. Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ had no distinguished ancestors, nor did he belong to a renowned family. He was an Arab from al-Najjār, belonging to a clan known as Banū l-Jazīrī from the region
(kūra) of Priego, in the present-day province of Córdoba. His father was a teacher
(muʿ…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
al-Khushanī, Ibn Ḥārith
(1,784 words)
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Asad
Ibn Ḥārith al-Khushanī (d. 361/971 or 371/981) was an Andalusian jurist of Islamic law
(faqīh), historian, and poet. Born in al-Qayrawān in what is now Tunisia, he moved to al-Andalus when still a young man. He is especially remembered for three biographical compilations:
Ṭabaqāt ʿulamāʾ
Ifrīqiya,
Quḍāt Qurṭuba, and
Akhbār al-fuqahāʾ
wa-l-muḥaddithīn. Although he is now often referred to by his
nisba, al-Khushanī, his contemporaries generally knew him as Ibn Ḥārith. Al-Khushanī’s education began in his home town of al-Qayrawān, where he st…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
al-Ḥumaydī al-Andalusī
(2,344 words)
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr Fuṭūh/Fattūḥ b. ʿAbdallāh b. Futūḥ b. Ḥumayd b. Yaṣil al-Azdī (d. 488/1095), called
al-Ḥumaydī, was an
Andalusī traditionist, jurist
(faqīh, pl.
fuqahāʾ), historian, and poet, best known for his biographical dictionary of Andalusī scholars
Jadhwat al-muqtabis fī dhikr wulāt al-Andalus wa-asmāʾ ruwāt al-ḥadīth wa-ahl al-fiqh wa-l-adab wa-dhawī l-nabāha wa-l-shiʿr (“Fire from the embers on the governors,
ḥadīth transmitters,
faqīhs, men of letters, notables and poets of al-Andalus”). Although his father was from the Córdoban suburb of…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
