Ibn ʿAsākir family - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mourad, Suleiman A.
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Leiden
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Brill
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The Ibn ʿAsākir family (Banū ʿAsākir) was prominent in mediaeval Damascus. It produced several notable Shāfiʿī scholars who occupied prestigious scholarly and judicial positions in Damascus and Syria and shaped intellectual and religious life there between the fifth/eleventh and eighth/fourteenth centuries. Even though each male member of the family was known by the name of Ibn ʿAsākir (along with an honorific peculiar to each), the reference when used on its own in mediaeval literature refers invariably to Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAsākir (499-571/