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Ibn al-Athīr
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Also Known As ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Athīr
Born May 12, 1160 • Syria
Died 1233 (aged 72) • Mosul • Iraq
Subjects Of Study universal history
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Neşri
Ottoman historian
Ephorus
Greek historian
Hesychius Of Miletus
Byzantine historian
Ahmed Dede Müneccimbaşı
Ottoman writer
Friedrich Schlosser
German historian
Diodorus Siculus
Greek historian
François Laurent
Belgian historian
Ibn Miskawayh
Islamic scholar
Rashīd al-Dīn: Ghaznavids in Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh
Rashīd al-Dīn
Persian statesman
Otto Henne am Rhyn
Swiss historian
Alexander Polyhistor
Roman philosopher, geographer, and historian
Otto Of Freising
Otto Of Freising
German bishop
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Heinrich Leo
Prussian historian
George The Syncellus
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Sextus Julius Africanus
Christian historian
Nicholas of Damascus
Greek historian and philosopher
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian

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