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At an early age, Ibn Shaddad lost his father and he was raised by his maternal uncles the Banu Shaddad, from whom he got his name 'Ibn Shaddad'. [5] About 1173, he returned to Mosul as mudarris ("professor"). [4] In 1188, returning from Hajj, ibn Shaddād was summoned by Saladin who had read and been impressed by his writings. [4]
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Saladin's aide, suggested that there was a heretical leader in Yemen who was claiming to be the messiah, and that this was the principal reason that Saladin dispatched Turanshah to conquer the region. While this is likely, it also appears 'Umara had considerable influence on Turanshah's desire to conquer Yemen and may ...
Behâ ed-Din (Baha' ad-Din Yusuf ibn Shaddad), The Life of Saladin, translated at London in 1897 by C.W. Wilson for the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. Humphreys, R. Stephen (1 January 1977). From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193-1260. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-263-7.
According to Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (one of Saladin's contemporary biographers), Saladin was a pious Muslim—he loved hearing Quran recitals, prayed punctually, and "hated the philosophers, those that denied God's attributes, the materialists and those who stubbornly rejected the Holy Law."
Ibn Shaddad can refer to: Abd al-Aziz ibn Shaddad, 12th-century Zirid chronicler; Antarah ibn Shaddad (fl. 580), pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, 12th-century jurist and biographer of Saladin; Izz al-Din ibn Shaddad, 13th-century geographer and historian; Muhammad ibn Shaddad (died 971), founder of the Kurdish Shaddadid ...
Baha al-Din Qaraqush (died 1201), military commander under Saladin; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145–1234), jurist and scholar, biographer of Saladin; Baha-ud-din Zakariya (c. 1170 – 1268), Sufi teacher; Baha' al-din Zuhair (1186–1258), Arabian poet; Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of Sufi Muslim order, the Naqshbandi
Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, ed. D. S. Richards, Ashgate, 2002. Halm, Heinz (2014). Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge, 1074–1171 [ Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Near East at the Time of the First Crusades, 1074–1171 ] (in German).