Al-Yunini
Syrian historian and religious scholar
Quṭb al-Dīn Abu ʾl-Fatḥ Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūnīnī (1242–1326) was a Syrian historian and religious scholar of the Ḥanbalī school of jurisprudence. He wrote the Dhayl Mirʾāt al-zamān, a continuation of the Mirʾāt al-zamān of Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī.
Life
Mūsā was born on 7 August 1242 in Damascus. His family claimed descent from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and originally came from the village of Yūnīn, hence his nisba al-Yūnīnī. His father was Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh and his mother Zayn al-ʿArab bint Naṣr Allāh. His early studies took place in Baalbek and Damascus. In 1260, his father died and elder brother ʿAlī sent him to Egypt to continue his education. In 1275, he performed the Ḥajj to Mecca. He visited Egypt in 1276–1277.
In 1281, al-Yūnīnī and a fellow scholar enlisted in the war against the Mongol invasion of Syria.
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