This is a monumental work of Ibn Khallikan, an eminent jurist consult and distinguished historian. The author had gained name and fame through this book because it attracted the attention of Orientalists in early nineteenth century. The translator, a well-known scholar, Mr. M.G. de Slane brought out its first edition in 1838. Then he published its English translation.

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Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) Part 3

The book Wafiyat al-Ayyan is an outstanding work of Ibn Khalqan, which is a collection of biographies of more than eight hundred famous people in the order of the Arabic alphabet, which was written between the years 1256-74 AD (654-71 AD).
In this book, biographies of about 850 scholars, rulers, ministers, and mystics are given in alphabetical order, and only the year of death and birth, and possibly a poem or a treatise of the scholars and scholars was sufficient. In the compilation of this book, the history of the companions, followers and caliphs of the right ones was not mentioned due to their fame, only a few of them were mentioned, and that too very briefly.

Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) Part 1

Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) Part 4

The book Wafiyat al-Ayyan is an outstanding work of Ibn Khalqan, which is a collection of biographies of more than eight hundred famous people in the order of the Arabic alphabet, which was written between the years 1256-74 AD (654-71 AD).
In this book, biographies of about 850 scholars, rulers, ministers, and mystics are given in alphabetical order, and only the year of death and birth, and possibly a poem or a treatise of the scholars and scholars was sufficient. In the compilation of this book, the history of the companions, followers and caliphs of the right ones was not mentioned due to their fame, only a few of them were mentioned, and that too very briefly.
This is a monumental work of Ibn Khallikan, an eminent jurist consult and distinguished historian. The author had gained name and fame through this book because it attracted the attention of Orientalists in early nineteenth century. The translator, a well-known scholar, Mr. M.G. de Slane brought out its first edition in 1838. Then he published its English translation.

Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) Part 2

De Slane was born in Belfast, the son of James McGuckin and Euphemia Hughes.After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, in 1822 he moved to Paris and studied oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy.

In 1828 he was admitted to the Société Asiatique, a French learned society. The society financed Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and de Slane to prepare a critical edition of Abu'l-Fida (أبو الفداء)'s Arabic geography, Taqwīm al-Buldān (تقويم البلدان) - "Locating the Lands" (1321). This was published in 1840.

Between 1843 and 1846 he was sent on a mission by the French Government to catalogue important documents in the libraries of Algiers and Constantine. During this time he also served as an Interpreter of Arabic in the French African Army and in 1846 he was appointed as Principal Interpreter for the French African army. He served as Professor of Arabic at the École de langues orientales in Paris and from 1849 also taught Turkish. He was also commissioned by the Bibliothèque Nationale to catalogue their Arabic manuscripts.

On 30 October 1826 he married Angadrème Sophie Félicité de la Barre de Mérona. She died seven years later on 24 September 1833. He then married Anne Elise Sutton de Clonard and together they had five children.De Slane was awarded French citizenship on 31 December 1838. He died aged 76 in Passy, France on the 4 August 1878.

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