ابن الأثير موارده ومنهجه في كتابة تاريخ الباهر

Abstract

AbstractThe paper talks about the life of the Mosuli historian Bin Al-Atheer and his resources and approach in his book (Al-Tarykh Al-Baher Fe Tarykh Al-Dawla Al-Atabakya). It is considered a local political compilation. Bin Al-Atheer has compiled it to be a book on Al-Zanky Family which ruled the city of Mosul and its wars with the Crusaders.The paper is divided into three sections. The first is talking about the life of Bin Al-Atheer including his name, nick-name, his birth, his family, his scientific status and his death as well as spotting light on his teachers and pupils.The second section deals with Bin Al-Atheer in writing his historical stories in his compilation and they are oral resources and written resources, documents, speeches, reports, messages and other. In addition, he was an eye witness for some constructional locations in Mosul in which he described them in his book.The third section described Bin Al-Atheer approach in his compilation in using expressions and his tendency in summarizing events and proverbs and poetry.The researcher in his paper has depended on so many resources like the compile of Wafat Al-Ayan for Bin Khilikan and Bin Al-Adeem Bughut Al-Talab and Zubdat Al-Halab and others.