Some Evaluations On Lisân al-Dîn Ibn al-Khatib as a Historian

Abstract

He is the historian of Barm Ahmar also the vizier and the poet he has taken important responsibilities in the palace. He’s fulfilled important duties either in domestic and in foreign politics related to the government. Because of politicial competition his rivals has ended his career and he has migrated to Maghrib where he has been later arrested and taken into the prison. And there in the prison he has been murdered. He has written sixty works including the topics at first history, geography, literature-poem, medical and politics. Ibn al-Khatib was an educative historian. But the performans that is seen in his works shows him as a great historian that has not affected the historians in his period. But in the following periods he has affected many people with his works