Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān
|Born||Irbil, IraqSeptember 22, 1211 in| |Died||October 30,
1282Damascus, Syria(aged 71) in| |Notable work(s)||Deaths of
Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch| Shams al-Dīn
Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (Arabic: شمس
الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن خلكان, in Kurdish "Ibn
Xelikan", the Khallikans are a kurdish tribe) (September 22,
1211 – October 30, 1282) was a 13th Century Shafi'i Islamic
scholar of Arab or Kurdish origin. Ibn Khallikan was born in
Arbil, Iraq on September 22, 1211, studied there and in Aleppo
and Damascus. He also studied jurisprudence at Mosul and then
settled in Cairo. He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian
and grammarian. Ibn Khallikan married in the year 1252. He was
an assistant to the chief judge in Egypt until 1261 when he
assumed the position of chief judge in Damascus. Ibn Khallikan
was removed from this position in 1271, returned to Egypt and
taught there until being reinstated as judge i