Izz Al-Din Ibn Al-Atheer Narrated the Mosul Forces Battles with Salah Al-Din Al-Ayoubi (570-571 AH/ 1174-1175AD)

Abstract

The narrations of Izz al-Din Ibn al-Atheer on the battles that took place between the forces of Mosul and the Salah Al-Din Al-Ayoubi of army of are a clear indication of the disclosure of Ibn al-Atheer’s tendencies for the Zangids who live in their confines .and the research dealt with his narratires that relates to the battle of the qarun Hama (570 AH/1174AD) and Tal al- sultan(571AH/1175AD) , the importance of the research lies in touching on the details of Ibn Al-Atheer's narrations and comparing them with contemporary sources of the event, some of which were from his approved sources, but he omitted or summarized some passages while Ibn Al-Atheer's accounts were an important source for those who came after him, and their influence remained in Their texts, and at the same time it was the historians who tended to Salah Al-Din Such as Al-Emad Isfahani and Ibn Shaddad His anecdotes, had signed them responsibility to defend the positions of Salah Al-Din and legitimate Unitary, The research is divided into the first paragraphs qarun Hama and the second Tal Al-Sultan, and each paragraph dealt with confrontation and results details.