Pri enaindvajsetih letih se je skupaj z očetom preselil v Mosul, da bi nadaljeval svoj študij zgodovine in islamskega izročila.
Biografija
Ibn al-Asir je pripadal Šajbanovi veji[3] velikega in vplivnega arabskega plemena Banu Bakr[4][5] iz Zgornje Mezopotamije. Pleme je dalo svoje ime mestu Diyarbakır.[6][7][8] Nekateri viri ga opisujejo kot Kurda.[9]
Imel je brata Majd ad-Dina in Dija ad-Dina Ibn Asirja. Al-Asir je živel znanstveno življenje v Mosulu, pogosto obiskoval Bagdad in nekaj časa potoval s Saladinovo vojsko po Siriji. Kasneje je živel v Alepu in Damasku. Njegovo glavno delo je bila svetovna zgodovina z naslovom al-Kamil fi at-Tarikh (Popolna zgodovina). Umrl je v Mosulu.
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↑a. Historiography of the Ayyubid and Mamluk epochs, Donald P. Little, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol.1, ur. M. W. Daly, Carl F. Petry. Cambridge University Press, 1998. str. 415. b. Ibn al-Athir, The A to Z of Islam, ur. Ludwig W. Adamec. Scarecrow Press, 2009. str. 135. c. Peter Partner, God of Battles: Holy wars of Christianity and Islam. Princeton University Press, 1997. str. 96. d. Venice and the Turks, Jean-Claude Hocquet, Venice and the Islamic world: 828–1797. ur. Stefano Carboni. Editions Gallimard, 2006. str. 35. op. 17. e. Marc Ferro, Colonization: A Global History. Routledge, 1997. str. 6. f. Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna. Praeger Publishers, 2000. str. 69.
↑1. Philip G. Kreyenbroek , Oral Literature of Iranian Languages [1] 2. Yasir Suleiman, "Language and identity in the Middle East and North Africa", Curzon Press, 1996, ISBN0700704108, str. 154.
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