The historian IBN al-Athir lived during the last quarter of the twelfth and the first half of thirteenth century – a turbulent period of Asia. He was born in an educated and highly influential family of an administrator, Athir al-Din. We know three sons from this house who played a lasting role in the field of diplomacy, literature and historiography. The historian, receiving elementary education first at home and later in the neighbouring schools turned a ...
