A depiction of Baghdad from 1808, taken from the print collection in Travels in Asia and Africa, etc. (ed. J. P. Berjew, British Library); Ibn al-Jawzī spent his entire life in this city in the twelfth-century.
Jurisconsult, Preacher, Traditionist;
Shaykh of Islam, Orator of Kings and Princes, Imam of the Hanbalites
Venerated in Sunni Islam, but particularly in the Hanbali school of jurisprudence