Ibn Asakir, Historian of Damascus

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ScholarHistorian of Damascus

Ibn Asakirابن عساكر

Approximate dateDamascus

His History of Damascus, in some eighty volumes, is one of the largest works of Islamic history.

He studied with well over a thousand teachers, about eighty of them women. Nur al-Din built a house of hadith for him in Damascus, where he taught. His history gathers the lives of everyone of note who lived in or passed through the city.

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