Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir
| Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir | |
|---|---|
| Emir of Mosul | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1149 Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, Turkey |
| Died | 1210 Mosul |
| Relatives | |
Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1149–1210) was a Kurdish historian, biographer and lexicographer.
Majd ad-Din was the brother of Ali ibn al-Athir and Diyā' ad-Dīn, also historian. He was emir of Mosul and lasted more than his brothers. He was a distinguished translator of the islamic language.
His dictionary Kitāb an-Ni/zdya was published in El Cairo in 1893, and his dictionary Kitāb ul-Murassa, about names of different families, was published by Ferdinand Seybold in Weimar in 1896.
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