# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-ibn-al-athir
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:45.475Z

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name: "Ali ibn al-Athir"
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description: "A 12th-century historian who chronicled the Crusades from the other side of the clash — recording Saladin's campaigns and the fall of Jerusalem through Arab sources while most of the medieval record flowed from European pens."
tagline: "Islamic historian, theologian and geographer (1160–1232/3)"
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birthDate: "1160-05-12"
deathDate: "1233"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1160 into a scholarly family, Ali ibn al-Athir moved to Mosul at twenty-one to deepen his studies in history and Islamic tradition under his father's guidance. He devoted decades to compiling a sweeping chronicle of Islamic and world history, drawing on hadith expertise and eyewitness accounts that few contemporaries could access. His works preserved critical Arab perspectives on the Crusader invasions and the political upheavals of the 12th century, written with a historian's rigor in an era when much of the record was penned by the conquered or the conquerors alone. He died in 1233, leaving behind texts that remain primary sources for anyone tracing the medieval Middle East.