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Ibn al-Jawzi

1116 - 1200

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Abū al-Farash ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي; c. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, was a Muslim jurisconsult, preacher, orator, heresiographer, traditionist, historian, judge, hagiographer, and philologist who played an instrumental role in propagating the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence in his native Baghdad during the twelfth-century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Jawzi has received more than 319,025 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ibn al-Jawzi is the 857th most popular writer (down from 825th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 74th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iraqi Writer.

Ibn al-Jawzi is most famous for his work, Al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wal-Umam, which is a 13-volume history of the Muslim world.

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Notable Works

Kitab al-Idah li-qawanin al-istilah, fi al-jadal wa-al-munazarah
1995
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
2015
The Devils Deceptions
Imam Ibn Al-Jawzi It is from enmity and hopelessness of the devil that his endeavor to misguide mankind from the Path of Allah will persist.
2018
Ahla hikayat min al azkiya
Children's literature, Arabic
1999
Kitab Ithar al-insaf fi athar al-khilaf
The Life of Ibn Hanbal
Biography & Autobiography
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. He was famous for living according to his own strict interpretation of the Prophetic model and for denying himself the most basic comforts, even though his family was prominent and his city, Baghdad, was then one of the wealthiest in the world. Ibn Hanbal’s piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after he resisted the attempts of two caliphs to force him to accept rationalist doctrine. His subsequent imprisonment and flogging is one of the most dramatic episodes of medieval Islamic history, and his principled resistance influenced the course of Islamic law, the rise of Sunnism, and the legislative authority of the caliphate. The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 H/1200 AD), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Set against the background of fierce debates over the role of reason and the basis of legitimate government, it tells the formidable life tale of one of the most influential Muslims in history.
2016

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ibn al-Jawzi ranks 857 out of 7,302. Before him are Frank Wedekind, Ahmed Deedat, Vicente Aleixandre, Meša Selimović, Philippe Ariès, and Jan Neruda. After him are Ernesto Sabato, Iris Murdoch, John Fante, Ambrose Bierce, Philostratus, and Peter Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1116, Ibn al-Jawzi ranks 2. Before him is Nur ad-Din. After him are Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden, Berengaria of Barcelona, Philip of France, and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair. Among people deceased in 1200, Ibn al-Jawzi ranks 2. Before him is Zhu Xi. After him are Trota of Salerno, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Ala ad-Din Tekish, Otto I, Count of Burgundy, Gorakhnath, Emperor Guangzong of Song, Edgar Ætheling, Gilbert Horal, Robert of Chester, and John Doukas.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ibn al-Jawzi ranks 85 out of 384. Before him are Al-Muqtadir (895), Nahor, son of Serug (-1912), Muhammad al-Shaybani (750), Sargon I (-1900), Al-Muntasir (837), and Shamshi-Adad I (-1860). After him are Hormizd IV (540), Adad-nirari I (-1400), Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (1941), Ahmad ibn Tulun (835), Al-Mutanabbi (915), and Nouri al-Maliki (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Ibn al-Jawzi ranks 7. Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780), Al-Masudi (896), Fuzûlî (1494), Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), and Berossus (-400). After him are Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn Khallikan (1211), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718), and Al-Hariri of Basra (1054).

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