On This Day
613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.[1]
Heraclius Constantine (Latin: Heraclius novus Constantinus; Greek: Ἡράκλειος Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Herakleios Konstantinos; 3 May 612 – 25 May 641), often enumerated as Constantine III,[c] was one of the shortest reigning Byzantine emperors, ruling for three months in 641. He was the eldest son of Emperor Heraclius and his first wife Eudokia.
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Born On This Day
1263 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian scholar and theologian (d. 1328)[11]
bn Taymiyyah (January 22, 1263 – September 26, 1328; Arabic: ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī (Arabic: تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام النميري الحراني),[10][11] was a Sunni Muslim ʿĀlim,[12][13][14] muhaddith, judge,[15][16] proto-Salafist theologian,[17][18][19][20] and sometimes controversial thinker and political figure.[21][14] He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan and for his involvement at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant.[22] A member of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyyah’s iconoclastic views that condemned numerous folk practices associated with saint veneration and the visitation of tomb-shrines made him unpopular with many scholars and rulers of the time, and he was imprisoned several times.[23]
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