Abu al-Fida

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Abu al-Fida

Abu al-Fida or Abul Fida Ismail Hamvi (fully Abu Al-fida' Isma'il Ibn 'ali ibn Mahmud Al-malik Al-mu'ayyad 'imad Ad-din, (also transliterated Abulfeda, Abu Alfida, and other ways)) (November 1273 – October 27, 1331) was a Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
historian

Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, geographer

Geographer

A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's physical natural environment and human habitat .Though geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography....
, and local sultan

Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
. The crater Abulfeda

Abulfeda (crater)

Abulfeda is a moon impact crater located in the central highlands of the Moon. To the northeast is the crater Descartes , and to the south-southeast is Almanon ....
on the Moon

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
, is named after him.

Life
Abulfeda was born in Damascus

Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
, where his father Malik ul-Afdal, brother of the prince of Hamah, had fled from the Mongols

Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
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Kurdish people

The Kurds are an Iranian peoples ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and which is known as Kurdistan....
historian

Historian

Geographer

Sultan

Abulfeda (crater)

Abulfeda is a moon impact crater located in the central highlands of the Moon. To the northeast is the crater Descartes , and to the south-southeast is Almanon ....
on the Moon

Moon

Life

Abulfeda was born in Damascus

Damascus

Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
. He was a descendant of Ayyub

Najm ad-Din Ayyub

al-Malik al-Afdal Najm ad-Din Ayyub ibn Shadhi ibn Marawan ) was a Kurdish people soldier and politician from Dvin, and the father of Saladin....
, the father of Saladin

Saladin

ala ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub , better known as Saladin in medieval Europe, was the Sultan of Egypt and Greater Syria. He led the Islamic opposition to the Second Crusade and Third Crusade....
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In his boyhood he devoted himself to the study of the Qur'an
Qur'an

The Qur?an is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur?an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God....
and the sciences, but from his twelfth year onward, he was almost constantly engaged in military expeditions, chiefly against the crusaders

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious war waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against Paganism Slavic peoples, Jews, Eastern Orthodox Church, Mongols, Catharism, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemi...
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In 1285 he was present at the assault of a stronghold of the Knights of St. John, and took part in the sieges of Tripoli

Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli is a city in Lebanon. Situated north of Batroun and the cape of Lithoprosopon, Tripoli is the capital of the North Governorate and the Districts of Lebanon of the same name....
, Acre and Qal'at ar-Rum

Qal'at ar-Rum

The Qal'at ar-Rum was a powerful Qalat on the river Euphrates, 50 km northeast of Gaziantep, Turkey. It is called Rumkale in Turkish, Hromgla in Armenian; the term meaning "Roman Castle " in all cases....
. In 1298 he entered the service of the Mamluk

Mamluk

A mamluk was a slavery soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ayyubid sultans from the 9th to the 13th centuries....
Sultan

Sultan

Hama

Hama is a city on the banks of the Orontes river in central Syria north of Damascus. It is the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate. It is the location of the historical city Hamath....
. In 1312 he became prince with the title Malik us-Salhn, and in 1320 received the hereditary rank of sultan with the title Malik ul-Mu'ayyad.

For more than twenty years all together he reigned in tranquillity and splendour, devoting himself to the duties of government and to the composition of the works to which he is chiefly indebted for his fame. He was a munificent patron of men of letters, who came in large numbers to his court. He died in 1331.

Works

The Concise History of Humanity or Chronicles
The Concise History of Humanity or Chronicles (book)

The Concise History of Humanity or Chronicles , or Tarikh Abi al-Fida ????? ??? ?????? , is a history book authored by Abu al-Fida in 1315 and continued by the author to 1329....
(Arabic: Tarikhu 'l-mukhtasar fi Akhbari 'l-bashar) - Tarikh Abu al-Fida (History of Abu al-Fida, his chief historical work is An Abridgment of the History at the Human Race, in the form of annals
Annals

Annals are a concise form of history writing which record events chronologically, year by year....
extending from the creation of the world to the year 1329 (Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
, 2 vols. 1869). His Geography is, like much of the history, founded on the works of his predecessors, including the works of Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
and Muhammad al-Idrisi
Muhammad al-Idrisi

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply El Idrisi was an Islamic geography, cartography and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II of Sicily....
. A long introduction on various geographical matters is followed by twenty-eight sections dealing in tabular form with the chief towns of the world. After each name are given the longitude, latitude, climate, spelling, and then observations generally taken from earlier authors. Parts of the work were published and translated as early as 1650 in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
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A Sketch of the Countries (Arabic: Taqwim al-Buldan)
A book about medicine named Kunash

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