 Ibn Abi'l-Dam

Abū Ishāq Shīhāb al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, better known as Ibn Abīʾl-Dam (29 July 1187–18 November 1244), was a medieval Syrian historian and the chief Islamic judge in his native Hama.Ibn Abi'l Dam was born in Hama in 1187 during Ayyubid rule of Syria.