Ibn Abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi

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.

Ibn abd al-Malik al-Murrakushi
بن عبد الملك المراكشي
Born5 July 1237
DiedSeptember 1303
New Tlemcen (Mansourah)
Occupationscholar, judge, historian
Known forHistorian biographer
Notable work
Ad-Dayl wa Takmila

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.[2] 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.[2]

Work

  • Ad-Dayl wa Takmila (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.[2] 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 (الذيل والتكملة لكتابي الموصول والصلة)[6]

References

  1. Buresi, Pascal (2018-07-01). "Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE.
  2. "ابن عبد الملك المراكشي". دعوة الحق. Moroccan Ministry of Habous. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  3. Shawkat M. Toorawa (205). Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth-century Bookman in Baghdad. Routledge. p. 184.
  4. Western Michigan University. Medieval Institute. Medieval prosopography. p. 6.
  5. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Manuela Marín. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  6. Marākishī (al-), M. b. M. b. ʻA. al-Malik; Faraḍī (Ibn al-), ʻA. A. b. M.; Bashkuwāl (Ibn), Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik (1964). al-Dhayl wa-al-takmilah : li-kitābay al-Mawṣūl wa-al-Ṣilah. Maktabah al-Andalusīyah 10. (in Arabic). Beirut: Dār al-Thaqāfah.

See also

  • List of Arab scientists and scholars
  • Encyclopædia Britannica Online
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