Author
Al Mouslie, Salah Eddin
Publication Date
1995
Publication Place
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University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
Subject
Kultur - Geschichte - Ibn Tulun - Salah Eddin AlMouslie - Islamwissenschaft - Heritage - History - Islamic Sciences - Ibn Tulun - Palace Relics - Saladin Al-MousliGeschichteKulturIslamwissenschaftIbn Tulun
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
The University Libraries in Saxony-Anhalt
Record ID
83313
Library Location
University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
Date
1995-04-08
Sample Text
Book description
Approval to publish the book issued by the Syrian Ministry of Information No.: 2125
Date 4/8/1995 AD
The history of Damascus in the Ottoman era suffers from a clear deficiency in authentic historical references recorded by contemporary historians of the events and those familiar with them.
There are various books bearing the name Damascus or the Levant, and most of them are based on the few authentic books that were published, such as the Damascus Daily Incidents by Al-Budairi Al-Hallaq, and the Levantine Diaries that we published by Ibn Kattan, and other books. Therefore, providing the Damascus Historical Library, so to speak, with new sources is considered a scientific and national duty in this era in which national historical culture is almost non-existent.
At the beginning of the Ottoman era, Damascus witnessed a group of historians who memorized its history and recorded what they heard and saw. Among the most prominent of these was Muhammad bin Tulun, who died in the year 953 AH, and who lived in the late Mamluk era and the beginning of the Ottoman era, and left a large group of books and works about Damascus, including the history of Salihiyya, Mafirat al-Khalan, I’lam al-Wari, and others.
The researcher Salah al-Din Khalil al-Shaibani al-Mawsili worked from 1978 until 1995 to study the legacy of this historian in this book after he obtained copies of the book’s manuscripts from Germany, Egypt, and Lebanon during the seventies of the last century, so he removed the dust from it, copied it, corrected it, and recorded the names and facts in it.
The Palace Relics is a book of biographies for a period of nearly a century, between the middle of the ninth century and the middle of the tenth century AH, in which Ibn Tulun recorded what he saw, heard, and read about the scholars of Damascus, its notables, and its rulers. He even corresponded with the scholars of the Hijaz to find out from them the deaths of their country in order to include them in the palace relics. This is an important aspect that helped the historian to understand the conditions of his brothers in other Arab countries.
Historian and researcher Salah al-Din al-Mawsili also included in this edition his latest work entitled The Jewel of the Statement on the Lineage and Exploits of Sheikh al-Hussein Qadib al-Ban al-Hashemi al-Qurashi al-Mawsili, which was written by Issa Abi Rabi’a bin Sulaiman al-Hassani al-Hashemi al-Qurashi al-Mawsili al-Hanbali.
In this edition, we present this book for free so that researchers and students of science around the world can benefit from it in their research and for those interested to learn about the Arab-Islamic heritage.
The writer Salah al-Din Khalil al-Mawsili also has approximately thirty-five books that he wrote and published over the past five decades, dealing with Islamic history and biographies of notables.
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