Epigraph:
“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?” Alphonse de Lamartine, Foreign Minister of France, 1848
Mosque of Madinah, first built in 1 AH
| Muslim historian Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Malik bin Hisham |
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| Title | Ibn Hisham |
| Died | 212/218 A.H/828 or 833 A.D[1]school_tradition |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Basra, Egypt |
| Main interest(s) | History |
| Notable work(s) | The Life of the Prophet |
Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Malik bin Hisham (Arabic: أبو محمد عبدالمالك بن هشام), or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq.[2] Ibn Ishaq’s work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari.[3] He was also said to have mastered Arabic philology in a way which only Sibawayh had.[4]
Ibn Hisham has been said to have grown up in Basra and moved afterwards to Egypt,[5] while others have narrated that his family was descended from Basra but he himself was born in Old Cairo.[6] Either way, it is in Egypt where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of language and history. His family was of Himyarite origin, though some narrators trace him to Mu’afir ibn Ya’far, while others say he is a Dhuhli.[5]
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Works
- As-Sirah an-Nabawiyyah, an edited (though not copied) version of Ibn Ishaq’s original work.[7] It is now considered one of the classic works on the biography of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.[8][9]
- He also wrote a work on South Arabian antiquities: Kitab al-Tijan li ma’rifati muluk al-zaman (Book of Crowns in knowing kings of the age)
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References
- Jump up^ Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture, pg. 7. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780231511834
- Jump up^ Kathryn Kueny, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, pg. 59. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ISBN 9780791490181
- Jump up^ Sahaja Carimokam, Muhammad and the People of the Book, pg. 520. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2011. ISBN 9781453537855
- Jump up^ Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, vol. 2, pg. 298. Trns. Franz Rosenthal. Issue 43 of Bollingen Series (General) Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. ISBN 9780691097978
- ^ Jump up to:a b Mustafa al-Suqa, Ibrahim al-Abyari and Abdul-Hafidh Shalabi, Tahqiq Sirah an-Nabawiyyah li Ibn Hisham, ed.: Dar Ihya al-Turath, pp. 23-4
- Jump up^ William Muir, The Life of Mahomet: With Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biography of Mahomet, and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia, vol. 1, pg. xciv. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1861.
- Jump up^ Mahmood ul-Hasan, Ibn Al-At̲h̲ir: An Arab Historian : a Critical Analysis of His Tarikh-al-kamil and Tarikh-al-atabeca, pg. 71. New Delhi: Northern Book Center, 2005. ISBN 9788172111540
- Jump up^ Antonie Wessels, A Modern Arabic Biography of Muḥammad: A Critical Study of Muḥammad Ḥusayn , pg. 1. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1972.
- Jump up^ Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, pg. 18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780521779333
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