Ibn al-Adim

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1. 1192–1230Aleppo · AleppoBorn in 1192 into a prominent Aleppo family, he received training in Islamic law and historiography. From the 1220s he held administrative posts under the Ayyubid regime while beginning to collect local historical materials for his History of Aleppo.
2. 1230–1240Aleppo · AleppoIn the 1230s he devoted himself in Aleppo to compiling the Biographies of Eminent Men (Bughyat al-Talab), recording the lives of scholars and officials of Syria and Iraq. He completed multiple volumes between 1231 and 1240, preserving much information on local society and culture in the Ayyubid era.
3. 1240–1262Cairo · CairoIn the 1240s he continued completing the continuation of the History of Aleppo. After Mongol forces threatened Aleppo in 1260, he fled to Egypt, continuing to organize his writings in Cairo, where he died in 1262, leaving a ten-volume History of Aleppo and a twenty-three-volume Biographies of Eminent Men.