Sources of Ibn al-Wardi in his book, The History of Ibn al-Wardi” Tatimat al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35516/jjha.v19i1.1939Keywords:
Ibn al-Wardi, History of the Levant, History of the Mamluk period, Maarat al-Numan, Primary SourcesAbstract
The article studies the medieval historian Ibn al-Wardi, and his book Tatimat al-Mukhtaṣar fī Akhbār al-Bashar, through presenting his lilfe history, his scientific status, the positions he held, as well as the importance of his book and the methodology he used in his book, which is known as the annals approach presenting events by year, and the sources that he relied on in his book, as a way of highlighting historical writing in the Levant in the eighth century AH / fourteenth century AD, its features, and the addition that such works made in this period. The study used a historical research approach based on collecting historical material from its original sources and analyzing it. The study ended with Ibn al-Wardi’s approach to the transmission of sources on which he relied, whether written or oral, and his position on the historical narration that he transmits, and the study concluded that Ibn al-Wardi’s book and the events he added to his contemporaries became a primary source for all those historians who came after him.
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