This research is part of the efforts to introduce the historian Ibn Abi Al-Suror Al-Bakri (d. 1087 AH), to obtain accurate information about him and highlight the importance of this historian because he enjoys special features, methodology and he has methods of his own. He was able to record information and prove his unique and distinct views. The search will focus on his tutors whom he received the knowledge from, and how his methodology settled. We will confirm the names of his manuscripts and search for its whereabouts and determine the printed from the unrefined manuscripts and whether it exists or missing.
The importance of this research lies in the fact that it seeks to uncover many unknown or different aspects of Ibn Abi Al-Suror. It is also an attempt to guide researchers and those concerned with Islamic history with the most important works of Ibn Abi Al-Suror and its whereabouts.
The question that this research seeks to answer is whether Sheikh Ibn Abi Al-Suror Al-Bakri has had a special mythology that he could draw from his tutors? Did he actually prove that he is a distinguished historian who has his own distinguished way? And how this can be concluded from his existing or lost books, and how they can be traced?
Keywords:
Al-Bakri - Nozhat Al-Absar - writing – Islamic history