The eldest brother, known as
Majd ad-Dīn (1149–1210), was long in the service of the amir of
Mosul, and was an earnest student of tradition and
language. His
dictionary of traditions (Kitāb an-Ni/zdya) was published at
Cairo (1893), and his dictionary of family names (Kitāb ul-Murassa) has been edited by
Ferdinand Seybold (Weimar, 1896).[1]
Diyā' ad-Dīn
The youngest brother ، ضياء الدين ، Diyā' ad-Dīn (1163–1239), served under
Saladin from 1191 and his son
al-Malik al-Afdal who succeeded him, served in
Egypt,
Samosata,
Aleppo,
Mosul and
Baghdad. He was one of the most famous aesthetic and stylistic critics of Arabian literature. His works include:
"Book of Analysis" or Kitab at-Tahlil (كتاب التحليل)[7] published by
Bulaq Press in
1865 (cf. Journal of the German Oriental Society, xxxv. 148, and
Ignaz Goldziher's Abhandlungen, i. 161 sqq.). This contains very independent criticism of ancient and modern
Arabic verse.[1]
al-Washy al-marḳūm (Beirut 1298).
al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr, ed. by Muṣṭafā D̲j̲awād and D̲j̲amil Saʿīd (Bag̲h̲dād 1375, 1956).
al-Istidrāk fi ’l-akhdh ʿala ’l-Māʾākhidh al-Kindiyya (Cairo 1958)
One of the collections of his Rasāʾil, ed. by Anīs al-Maḳdisī (Beirut 1959) (based on the manuscript Topkapisaray Ahmed III, 2630)
A selection of his letters published by
David Samuel Margoliouth are available under the title On the Royal Correspondence of Diyā' ad-Dīn al-Jazarī in the Actes du dixieme congrès international des orientalistes, sect. 3, pp. 7–21.[1]
Ali ibn al-Athir
The most famous brother was
Ali ibn al-Athir (May 13, 1160 – 1233), who devoted himself to the study of history and Islamic tradition. At the age of twenty-one he settled with his father in Mosul and continued his studies there. In the service of the amir for many years, he visited Baghdad and
Jerusalem and later
Aleppo and
Damascus. He died in Mosul. His world history, the
al-Kāmil fi t-tarīkh[9] (The Complete History), extends to the year 1231. It has been edited by
Carl Tornberg, Ibn al-Athīr Chronicon quod perfectissinum inscribitur (14 vols., Leiden, 1851–1876). The first part of this work up to A.H. 310 (A.D. 923) is an abbreviation of the work of
Tabari with minor additions. Ibn Athīr also wrote a history of the
Atabegs of Mosul at-Tarīkh al-atabakīya, published in the Recueil des historiens des croisades (vol. ii., Paris); a work (Usd al-Ghdba) giving an account of 7,500 companions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad (5 vols., Cairo, 1863), and a compendium (the Lubāb) of Samani's Kitāb ui-A n.~db (cf.
Ferdinand Wüstenfeld's Specimen el-Lobabi, Göttingen, 1835).[1]
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