Major Works of the Ibn al-Athīr Brothers

Mujīr al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr (d. 606/1210)

On Hadith:

• Jāmiʿ al-uṣūl li-aḥādīth al-Rasūl
• al-Nihāya fī gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-l-athar
• al-Manāl al-ṭālib fī sharḥ ṭiwāl al-gharāʾib
• al-Shāfī Sharḥ Musnad al-Shāfiʿī

On Arabic Language:

• al-Muraṣṣaʿ fī al-ābāʾ wa-l-ummahat wa-l-banīn wa-l-banāt wa-l-azwāʾ wa-l-dhawāt
• al-Badīʿ fī ʿilm al-ʿArabiyya

On Tafsir:

• al-Inṣāf fī-l-jamʿ bayn al-Kashf wa-l-Kashshāf

On History and Biography:

• Tajrīd asmāʾ al-ṣaḥāba
• al-Mukhtār fī manāqib al-akhyār
• al-Sīra al-nabawiyya

ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr (d. 630/1233)

On History and Biography:

• al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh
• al-Tārīkh al-bāhir fī-l-dawla al-Atābekiyya
• Usd al-ghāba fī maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba
• al-Lubāb fī tahdhīb al-ansāb
• Tuhfat al-ʿajāʾib wa-tuhfat al-gharāʾib fī al-tārīkh
• Kitāb al-jihād
• Tārīkh al-Mawṣil
• Ādāb al-siyāsa

On Arabic Language:

• al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr fī ʿilm al-bayān

Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr (d. 637/1239)

On Arabic Language, Rhetoric, and Literature:

• al-Mathal al-sāʾir fī adab al-kātib wa-l-shāʿir
• al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr fī ṣināʿat al-manẓūm wa-l-mansūb
• al-Kifāya fī naqḍ kalām al-shāʿir wa-l-kātib
• al-Badīʿ
• al-Burhān fī ʿilm al-bayān
• Mukhtaṣar min Majmaʿ al-amthāl li-l-Maydanī
• Mukhtārāt min shiʿr Abī Tammām, al-Buḥturī, and al-Mutanabbī

On Hadith:

• Majmūʿat al-ḥadīth

On History and Literature:

• Risāla fī awṣāf Miṣr