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Something wrong?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.
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So he prayed to the Almighty for aid, and left Ghaznî on the 10th of Sha’bãn AH 414… with 30,000 horse besides volunteers, and took the road to Multãn.
This temple of Somnãt was built upon fifty-six pillars of teak wood covered with lead.
In the year 159 (AD 776) Al Mahdî sent an army by sea under ‘Abdul Malik bin Shahãbu’l Musamma’î to India… They proceeded on their way and at length disembarked at Barada.
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About this person
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.
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