Английская Википедия:Ibn al-Fuwati
Шаблон:Short description Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Razzāḳ ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Fuwaṭī (Шаблон:Lang-ar) best known as Ibn al-Fuwati (25 June 1244 – 1323), was a medieval librarian and historian who wrote a great deal, but whose works have mostly been lost. His most important extant work is the Talḵīṣ, a biographical dictionary.
Biography
Ibn al-Fuwati was born on 25 June 1244 in Baghdad.Шаблон:Sfn His family originated in Marw al-Rudh in Khurasan.Шаблон:Sfn His nisba indicates that one of his parents was a seller of waist wraps (Arabic: fūṭa, plural: fowaṭ).Шаблон:Sfn Aged 14, he was enslaved and incarcerated by the Mongols at the Siege of Baghdad (1258) and was subsequently brought to Adharbayjan.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1261/2, he joined Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in Maragheh and was appointed librarian of the Maragheh observatory by Tusi.Шаблон:Sfn While in Maragheh, Ibn al-Fuwati wrote a biographical dictionary of astronomers, the Taḏkerat man qaṣada’l-raṣad (non-extant).Шаблон:Sfn He stayed in Maragheh together with Tusi's son and successor Asil al-Din.Шаблон:Sfn In 1281, Ibn al-Fuwati returned to Baghdad on the request of Ata-Malik Juvayni and was appointed director of the Mustansiriya School.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Ibn al-Fuwati visited Adharbayjan at least three times between 1304 and 1316.Шаблон:Sfn He retired to Baghdad after the execution of Rashid-al-Din Hamadani in 1318.Шаблон:Sfn Charles P. Melville suggests that some of Ibn al-Fuwati's works were destroyed during the subsequent sack of the Rashidiya quarter.Шаблон:Sfn Ibn al-Fuwati's religious beliefs were not strictly categorizable, for he is variously claimed to have been a Hanbalite, Shafi'ite, Shi'ite, and Sufi.Шаблон:Sfn He drank wine and was renowned for his calligraphical works.Шаблон:Sfn He died in 1323 in Baghdad.Шаблон:Sfn
Literary output
Ibn al-Fuwait's most important extant work is his biographical dictionary, the Talḵīṣ.Шаблон:Sfn The Talḵīṣ is believed to be an abridgement of the Majmaʿal-ādāb fī moʿjam al-alqāb.Шаблон:Sfn However, it may be that the Majmaʿal-ādāb fī moʿjam al-alqāb never even existed.Шаблон:Sfn Melville notes that even if the work did exist, it was probably never completed.Шаблон:Sfn The Talḵīṣ itself was also never completed, for many entries are unfinished or left blank.Шаблон:Sfn The exact scope of the Talḵīṣ is not clearly defined, as it appears to include a wide array of people whose names Ibn al-Fuwati had come across.Шаблон:Sfn Most entries cover people from present-day Iraq and present-day western and central Iran, especially Isfahan.Шаблон:Sfn Melville notes that the Talḵīṣ contains a wealth of information about the intellectual and cultural life of the Ilkhanate.Шаблон:Sfn
Ibn al-Fuwati studied Mongolian and Persian; although he did not write books in Persian, he did own a memorabilia book (majmu'a) for Persian poetry.Шаблон:Sfn In his Talḵīṣ, Ibn al-Fuwati occasionally quotes Persian poetry.Шаблон:Sfn
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