Abstract
Ibn al-Athir was a Muslim historian in the 6-7th century AH/12-13th century AD and renowned for his masterpiece entitled al-Kamil fi al-tarikh. The content structure of al-Kamil is divided into two which are, first, ‘Muqaddimah’ section containing the principles and concepts of history of Ibn al-Athir and, second, narrative section containing information and historical events which dominate almost all of al-Kamil. This article is intended for discussion on the philosophy of history in the ‘Muqaddimah’ section to understand Ibn al-Athir’s ideas about history in al-Kamil. The discussion applies a document analysis method and historiography approach. Results found that there were three forms of philosophy of history of Ibn al-Athir. First, tazkirah (reminder) is a reminder for mankind of historical events that happened. Second, sahih (authentic) is a selection technique of factual historical content. Third, tamm (completeness or perfection) as a process of scrutiny and observation before a narration is chosen and written. These three indirectly underlie the whole historiography of al-Kamil and form Ibn al-Athir’s ideas of philosophy of history in al-Kamil fi al-tarikh.
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Ibn al-Athir was a Muslim historian circa the 6-7th century AH/12-13th century AD
Ibn al-Athir was a Muslim historian in the 6-7th century AH/12-13th century AD and renowned for his masterpiece entitled al-Kamil fi al-tarikh
Ibn al-Athir was one of the leading historians who brought change in Islamic historiography form the point of concept of history and historiography methods based on his philosophy of history
Summary
Ibn al-Athir was a Muslim historian circa the 6-7th century AH/12-13th century AD He was famed for a historical work of al-Kamil fi al-tarikh [The Complete History]. The variety of genre revealed that the work did not focus on one age but extended to cover all ages. Historiography with such genre gives a positive implication to the development of Islamic historiography. Ibn al-Athir scholarship was very much evident in his historical work entitled al-Kamil fi al-tarikh Determination of universal genre for al-Kamil is based on its content containing the early history of human creation, previous nations, the Prophets, the Islamic era; Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Khulafa’ al-Rashidin, Umayyads, ‘Abbasids, Fatimids, www.ccsenet.org/ass
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