Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi

Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi (Arabic: محمد بن حبيب البغدادي), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi, was a ninth-century historian, writer and linguist who lived in Baghdad, Iraq.

Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi
Personal life
Born	Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Habib ibn Umayyah ibn 'Amr al-Hashimi Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died	860 CE Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Main interest(s)	Islamic history, history of pre-Islamic Arabia
Notable work(s)	Kitāb al-Muḥabbar
Occupation	Writer, historian, and linguist
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni Islam

Career

Al-Baghdadi was a staunch supporter of the Abbasid Caliphate and wrote more than ten works on history, genealogy, biographies and the Arabic language, including poetry collections and linguistic works. Muhammad ibn Habib al-Baghdadi died in the year 860 CE (year 245 of the Hijri calendar).^[1][2][3]

Notable works

• Kitāb al-Muḥabbar^[4][3]
• Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn min al-ashrāf fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-al-Islām: Wa-yalīhi Kuná al-shuʻarāʼ wa-man ghalabat kunyatuhu ʻalá ismih (Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Periods: Including the Names of Murdered Poets)^[5]
• al-Munmaq fi 'Akhbar al-Quraysh (The Broad Histories of the Quraysh)^[6]
• al-Shu'ara wa an-Sabuhum (The Poets and Their Lineages)^[6]

See also

• List of Muslim historians
• Ibn Inabah