Historian Ibn Al-Kazarouni and his approach in his book ”mukhtasar altaarikh min 'awal alzaman alaa muntahaa dawlat bani aleabaas”

Abstract

The importance of the book "Mukhtasar al-Tarikh from the beginning of time to the end of the Abbasid state" is not limited to the fact that it is "one of the concentrated books - as described by its researcher Mustafa Jawad - but its importance is evident in that the historian Zahir al-Din Ali Muhammad al-Kaziruni was a reliable and knowledgeable person, one of the most trustworthy. He. Ibn al-Kaziruni was born and lived in Baghdad and received his education from its most prominent scholars and witnessed what happened to it following the Mongol invasion in 656 AH.

Ibn al-Kaziruni wrote in various types of sciences: language, literature, jurisprudence, and history. However, only a few of his books have reached us: Mukhtasar al-Tarikh "the subject of the study", and Maqama fi Qawa'id Baghdad, in addition to fragments of his other books scattered in the works that I adopted as a source.

Ibn al-Kaziruni followed the method of the book of biographies in dealing with the biography of the Prophet in terms of chronological order. As for the Islamic Caliphate: the Rightly Guided Caliphate, passing through the Umayyads and ending with the Rightly Guided Caliphate, he followed the objective method in presenting it, one caliph after another, reviewing the most important Each of them has created, as the study dealt with his approach in dealing with the sources he used, and their types: oral, or written, and his honesty in transmission, and the methods of presenting the historical material and criticizing it, and the historical approach was adopted for its suitability to the subject of the study.

The study concluded with some results, the most important of which were: The book "Mukhtasar al-Tarikh" is a valuable book, its author succeeded in recording the news of Islamic history from the era of the message to the end of the Abbasid state. Despite his abbreviation of the news, he did not compromise the content and sequence of events.