The fullest Ayyubid dynastic history, written at Hama with access to the family's own tradition and to Ibn al-Athir, Ibn Abi Tayy and Sibt ibn al-Jawzi. For 1199 to 1201 it narrates al-Afdal's and al-Zahir's siege of Damascus, al-Adil's march to Egypt and his removal of the boy al-Mansur Muhammad (February 1200), the sharing of the principalities among al-Adil's sons, with al-Kamil in the Jazira and later Egypt and al-Mu'azzam at Damascus, the settlement of Hama under al-Mansur Muhammad, and the Egyptian famine. Later than the events but the best on the inner workings of the family. The Cairo edition reaches only 1248; the rest is in manuscript.
About this source
- Title
- Mufarrij al-kurub fi akhbar Bani Ayyub
- Author
- Jamal al-Din Ibn Wasil
- Author's dates
- 1208 to 1298
- Written
- about 1272 to 1285, at Hama
- Language
- Arabic
- Covers
- 1169 to 1263
- Kind
- Chronicle
No free copy of the Arabic text was verified in this check; the Cairo edition circulates on Arabic library sites. No translation covers 1200. The only web text found (vostlit) is a Russian extract on the 1230s to 1270s.
Where to read it
Editions
- J. al-Shayyal, H. M. Rabie and S. Ashur (eds), Mufarrij al-kurub fi akhbar Bani Ayyub, 5 vols (Cairo, 1953 to 1977), Arabic, to 1248; vol. 3 covers the years around 1200 (not freely online)
Translations
- Russian extracts by V. G. Tizengauzen (1884) for 1229 to 1273 only, at vostlit.info; nothing on 1200