Mujir al-Din

Grave of Mujir al-Din, at the base of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.

Mujīr al-Dīn al-ʿUlaymī (Arabic: مجير الدين العليمي) ‎(1456–1522), often simply Mujir al-Din, was a Jerusalemite qadi and historian whose principal work chronicled the history of Jerusalem and Hebron in the Middle Ages.[1][2] Entitled al-Uns al-Jalil bi-tarikh al-Quds wal-Khalil ("The glorious history of Jerusalem and Hebron") (c. 1495), it is considered to be invaluable, constituting "the most comprehensive and detailed source for the history of Jerusalem" written in its time.[1][3][4]

  1. ^ a b Little, 1995, p. 237.
  2. ^ van Donzel, 1994, p. 291.
  3. ^ Khalidi, 1998, p. 216, footnote 25.
  4. ^ Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p. 148.

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