الكامل في التاريخ - ابن الأثير 2.5.6

Which is a general history in 12 volumes, from the creation and the beginning of time until his time, where he ended at the end of the year 628 AH, that is dealing with the history of the ancient world until the emergence of Islam, and the history of the Islamic world since the emergence of Islam until his time, It records the events of each year separately, and established a balance between the news of the Mashreq and Morocco and between them over a period of seven centuries and a quarter century, which gave his book the nature of public history more than any other public history, while not neglecting the local incidents in each region, And the land of high and cheap, and droughts, epidemics and earthquakes.
Al-Atheer was not only a news anchor or an event registrar, he was an excellent analyst and a critical critic. He was keen to explain some historical phenomena and criticize the owners of his sources. He discussed many of their news. He found political, military, moral and practical criticism. What made his historical character quite clear in writing was always.
The book's importance is that it completed what stopped the history of al-Tabari in the year 302 AH which is the year that ended his book. After Al-Tabari did not appear a book covering the era of more than three centuries, and the book included the news of the Crusades related series since their entry in the year 491 E until the year 628 AH, and included the news of the Tatar crawl on the Islamic Mashreq since its inception in the year 616 AH. Ibn al-Atheer wrote his history in a prose style, in which he is not charged, apart from verbal and foreign phrases, and is interested in presenting the news item in clear and concise terms. Is a book in which Golden collected all the incidents that occurred in that period

Author: Izz al-Din Abi al-Hasan al-Jazri al-Musli (555-630 AH) known as Ibn al-Atheer al-Jaziri, a great Islamic historian, the contemporary of the state of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, and the monitoring of events and his complete book in history as a reference to that period of Islamic history.