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tribe, as the family name ("Ibn Khallikan") originated from a village near Erbil and was formed "according to the Kurdish manner" (?ala tariq al-nisba al-kurdiyya).

His primary studies took him from Erbil, to Aleppo and to Damascus, before he took up jurisprudence in Mosul and then in Cairo, where he settled. He gained prominence as a jurist, theologian

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