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Who was ibn khallikan?

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Abu-l 'Abbas Ahmad ibn Khallikan (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن خلكان‎), (September 22, 1211 - October 30, 1282) was a Kurdish Muslim scholar of the 13th century. He was born in Arbil, in 1211. His most famous work is Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) known as The Biographical Dictionary. According to Britannica, ibn Khallikan chose "factual material for his biographies with intelligence and scholarship" and this book "...is a valuable source for his contemporaries and contains excerpts from earlier biographies no longer extant." He started to work on it in 1256 until 1274. He died in Damascus in 1282.

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