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{{Infobox Person|name=Ismā‘īl ibn Kathīr|image=ibn kathir.png|date_of_birth=c. 1300|place_of_birth=Bosra, Mamluk Sultanate (present-day Syria)|death_date=18 February 1373|death_place=Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate, (present-day Syria)|occupation=Scholar of [[hadith]], scholar of [[tafsir]]|notable_works=''Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Adheem'' (''[https://tafsir.app/ibn-katheer/1/1 Tafsir Ibn Kathir]'')<br> | {{Infobox Person|name=Ismā‘īl ibn Kathīr|image=ibn kathir.png|date_of_birth=c. 1300|place_of_birth=Bosra, Mamluk Sultanate (present-day Syria)|death_date=18 February 1373|death_place=Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate, (present-day Syria)|occupation=Scholar of [[hadith]], scholar of [[tafsir]]|notable_works=''Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Adheem'' (''[https://tafsir.app/ibn-katheer/1/1 Tafsir Ibn Kathir]'')<br> | ||
''[https://app.turath.io/book/4445 al-Bidayah wal-Nihaya]'' (''The Beginning and the End'')<br>''Kitab al-Jami'' (''The Comprehensive Book'')<br>''[https://app.turath.io/book/930 al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah]'' (''The Prophetic Sira'')<br>''[https://app.turath.io/book/932 Qisas al-Anbiya]'' (''Tales of the Prophets'')<br>''al-Ijtihad fi Talab al-Jihad'' (''Deliberation in the Quest of Jihad'')|Madh'hab=[[Sunni]], Shafi'i, Athari}} | ''[https://app.turath.io/book/4445 al-Bidayah wal-Nihaya]'' (''The Beginning and the End'')<br>''Kitab al-Jami'' (''The Comprehensive Book'')<br>''[https://app.turath.io/book/930 al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah]'' (''The Prophetic Sira'')<br>''[https://app.turath.io/book/932 Qisas al-Anbiya]'' (''Tales of the Prophets'')<br>''al-Ijtihad fi Talab al-Jihad'' (''Deliberation in the Quest of Jihad'')|Madh'hab=[[Sunni]], Shafi'i, Athari}} | ||
'''Abu al-Fida Imad al-Din Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi''' (إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد الدين), better known as '''Ibn Kathir''', was one of the most influential scholars of [[hadith]] and scholars of [[tafsir]] in Islamic intellectual history. He was born in Bosra (located in present-day Syria) during the Mamluk Sultanate c. 1300 and | '''Abu al-Fida Imad al-Din Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi''' (إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد الدين), better known as '''Ibn Kathir''', was one of the most influential scholars of [[hadith]] and scholars of [[tafsir]] in Islamic intellectual history. He was born in Bosra (located in present-day Syria) during the Mamluk Sultanate c. 1300 and was educated in Damascus, where he died in 1373.<ref name=":02">{{Citation|title=Encyclopaedia of Islam|publisher=E.J. Brill|volume=3 H-Ir|editor1=B. Lewis|editor2=V. L. Menage|editor3=Ch. Pellat|editor4=J. Schacht|edition=New Edition [2nd]|location=Leiden|chapter=Ibn Kathir|pages=817-818|publication-date=1986|isbn=90 04 08118 6}}</ref> His most well-known works include the eponymous hadith/''[[Corruption of Previous Scriptures|Israiliyat]]''-based [https://tafsir.app/ibn-katheer/1/1 Tafsir Ibn Kathir] (published in English as a heavily abridged and edited translation), the 14-volume hadith/''Israiliyat''-based historical and apocalyptic work ''Al-Bidayah wal-Nihaya'' (literally "The Beginning and the End"), and the still widely-read ''Qisas al-Anbiya'' (translated into English as ''Stories of the Prophets''). | ||
Ibn Kathir was heavily influenced by [[Ibn Taymiyyah]] (d. 1328) from early on in his life.<ref name=":02" /> | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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===''Tafsir Ibn Kathir''=== | ===''Tafsir Ibn Kathir''=== | ||
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) describes ''Tafsir Ibn Kathir'', from a scholarly standpoint, as "essentially a philological work" and "very elementary".<ref name=":02" /> | |||
==Views== | ==Views== | ||