The Beginning and the End by Ibn Kathir

Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya by ابن كثير

Aliases

Aliases	Arabic
Ibn Kathīr	ابن كثير
Abu al-Fiḍā ‘Imād Ad-Din Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī Al-Damishqī	إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد
Abū l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kaṯīr	أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير
Imād ad-Dīn	عماد الدين

Background and Biography

Background and Biography

Excerpts

Characterizations by Guidoboni and Comastri (2005) and Gil (1992)

• from Guidoboni and Comastri (2005) and Gil (1992)

Guidoboni and Comastri (2005) suggests that Ibn al-Jawzi's report was itself taken up later by the 14th century historian Ibn Kathir, in his Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya XII, p.99. Gil (1992:408-409 n. 60) notes that Ibn Kathir, Biddya, XII, 96 speaks of two earthquakes, like Ibn al-Jawzi, from whom he copied.

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