Contributions of the AL - Mana family to the intellectual movement during the sixth and seventh centuries AH

Abstract

Iraq was full of many scientific families that occupied a prominent position in society, through their scientific, political and administrative role. Scientific families are a unique phenomenon unique to the Arab Islamic civilization. These families contributed to the intellectual renaissance witnessed by the Islamic world. One of the most prominent features of this family was Civilization is the presence of scientific families that adopted the transmission of knowledge to their children and passed it down generation after generation, and among these families is the (AL - Man'ah) family, which is attributed to its great grandfather (Man'ah bin Malik) Al-Arbali Al-Mosili, which is one of the famous scientific families that emerged in the city of Mosul, which witnessed a boom in the movement. Intellectual development during the rule of the Atabeg state (521 - 660 AH / 1127 - 1262 AD) is an Arbilian family of Mosul origin, and when we study the intellectual history of the city of Mosul in the era of the Islamic State, we find that the (AL - Manaa) family is one of the scientific families that played an important role in the growth and development of the intellectual movement. And the administration in the city of Mosul and other Islamic cities, and this family left a clear scientific impact on the course of the intellectual movement not only in the city of Mosul, but in every city they settled in, especially Baghdad and Erbil, as its fame came through the classifications of its notables in the various sciences (translational and mental), which were added Which is our Arab-Islamic heritage and which contributed to the renaissance of Arab-Islamic civilization during the sixth and seventh centuries AH, in addition to teaching, fatwas, public speaking, and the administrative positions they held, such as the judiciary and the political delegation. Many historians have described the figures of this family with a high international status, as they were from the house of knowledge, jurisprudence, leadership, and virtue. Among the forerunners were Barbel, Mosul, and others, in addition to their status among some princes and kings. Its fame spread throughout most parts of the Islamic world, as many students of knowledge would come there to study at the hands of its notables, and a large group of scholars would graduate from them.