Almuhaddith Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Jaili (565 AH / 1169 AD) and his Efforts in Historical Writing "altarajumiyah"

Résumé

This study aims to introduce the historian, “Ahmed bin Saleh bin Shafi’ Al-Jaily (565 AH /1169 AD) and his efforts in historical writing "translational". Through the remaining narrations that were preserved from his book "The Tail of the History of Baghdad" Which is appended to the history of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d.463AH /171AD). The main objective of the study can be identified by how did the Mongol invasion affect the civilizational structure of the Islamic world? Because of the catastrophe committed against the civilized product that scientists accomplished, after burning and destroying that achievement, which contributed to losing a lot of the Arab-Islamic heritage, the history which was written by Al-Jaily was among those which were lost. Accordingly, the study aims to reconstruct the curriculum adopted by Al-Jaily in his book based on the available narrations from the original book, and contributed to the writings of his later historians.

The researcher conducted this study to show the approach that Al-Jaily followed in classifying his book.

Ibn Shafi’ al-Jaili followed al-Khatib’s approach in classifying his book, and his subjects were limited to: religious scholars, i.e. jurisprudence, hadith, interpretation, in addition to Arabic sciences.

The lack of fame of Ibn Shafi’ among historians is due to his early death, in addition to the fact that the Mongol invasion and the destruction that accompanied it was a reason for not spreading his book like other scholars.

Al-Jily’s book is considered one of the main works in its field, as it chronicled the civilizational activity of Baghdad city in the sixth century AH. Through his book, it is possible to identify the manifestations of cultural and educational life represented in the statement of teaching methods, the curricula of scholars, and the monitoring of schools that appeared in Baghdad at the time.