Ibn Abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi explained
| Ibn abd al-Malik al-Murrakushi |
| Native Name: | بن عبد الملك المراكشي |
| Birth Date: | 5 July 1237 |
| Birth Place: | Marrakech, Almohad Caliphate |
| Death Date: | September 1303 |
| Death Place: | New Tlemcen (Mansourah), Marinid Sultanate |
| Occupation: | scholar, judge, historian |
| Known For: | Historian biographer |
| Notable Works: | Ad-Dayl wa Takmila |
Ibn abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi or al-Murrakushi (Full name: Abu abd Allah Muhammed ibn Muhammed ibn abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن عبد الملك المراكشي) (b. 5 July 1237 - September 1303) was a Moroccan Arab scholar, historian, judge and biographer. He is the author of the famous book 'Ad-Dayl wa Takmila', a nine-volume biographical encyclopaedia of notable people from Morocco and al-Andalus.
Life
Born into a notable family of prestigious Arab lineage in Marrakech,[1] hence the nisba, al-Marrakushi. In 1300, Ibn Abd al-Malik left Marrakech following the court of the Marinid King Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr and settled in Mansourah, where the Marinids were besieging Tlemcen in an attempt to oust the Abd al-Wadid dynasty. He seems to have died there three years later in September 1303, despite reports of him being at Aghmat only three months earlier.He had a son who settled in Málaga where he became a close friend of Ibn al-Khatib. The latter based much of his biographical book Al-Ihata on the works of Ibn abd al-Malik.
Work
- Ad-Dayl wa Takmila (Arabic: الذيل والتكملة) ('Appendix and Supplement'); Ibn abd al-Malik's biographical dictionary and life's work completed months before his death. His intention to complete the biographical dictionaries of Ibn Bashkuwāl and Ibn al-Faraḍī resulted in this surpassing sequel. Of the nine original, approx., 700 page volumes, four volumes survive intactvols. 1, 5, 6, 8. Two more survive in partvols. 2 and 4. The work is rich in detail. Some inaccurate renderings in name pronunciation arise from the Arabic writing system.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Al-Dhayl wa-al-takmilah : li-kitābay al-Mawṣūl wa-al-Ṣilah (Arabic: الذيل والتكملة لكتابي الموصول والصلة)[6]
See also
Notes and References
- Buresi. Pascal. 2018-07-01. Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. en.
- Web site: ابن عبد الملك المراكشي. دعوة الحق. Moroccan Ministry of Habous. 30 July 2012.
- Book: Shawkat M. Toorawa. Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth-century Bookman in Baghdad. 205. Routledge. 184. 9780415297622.
- Book: Western Michigan University. Medieval Institute. Medieval prosopography. 2002. 6.
- Book: Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Manuela Marín. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. 1992. 9004095993. 30 July 2012.
- Book: Marākishī (al-). M. b. M. b. ʻA. al-Malik. Ibn abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi. Faraḍī (Ibn al-). ʻA. A. b. M.. Ibn al-Faradi. Bashkuwāl (Ibn). Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik. Ibn Bashkuwāl. al-Dhayl wa-al-takmilah : li-kitābay al-Mawṣūl wa-al-Ṣilah . Beirut. Dār al-Thaqāfah. 1964. Maktabah al-Andalusīyah 10.. ar .
