Tarekh Alzaman by Ibn Al-Ibri: A Study in Its Historical Material and Its Method during the Crusader Invasion to the Islamic East (490-589H/1097-1193CE)
Loay Ibrahim Buaanah, Amman University College, Al Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan.
Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Anagreh, Department of History, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
Audeh Rafeh Al-Sharia, Researcher in the Mediator Islamic History.
Abstract
The historical writing is considered an important and articular part in the historical studies, because of its research in the manner of the treatment of the historical narrations and the tendencies of the historians and its uncovering of the fact in many times. And the period of the crusades and the struggle between the crusaders and the muslims that intervened it form one of that periods that deserve the research and the interest because of the distortions that befell it. And the study of the book “Tarekh ALzaman” and its method by Gryghor who is so-called Ibn Al-MaIati (1226-1286CE) represents one of the most important ones. And the problem of the study hides in trying the understanding of the aspects of that period from the beginning of the crusader invasion to the end of the period of Saladin Al-Ayubi, and the way of its dealing and treatment by Ibn Al-Ibri from where his tendencies and his method and the definition of his position towards the numerous parties of the struggle at that time. As the importance of this study comes to uncover mysterious aspects in that period and his book contained it by virtue of his experience and his work or through the uniqueness of his sources from what he reported from others from the sons of his sect from the Syrians, so that it forms a new source for this period which the other sources may miss it whether the Islamic sources or the Latin sources may share in the coverage of the aspects of the shortage that may befell that period.