Ibn Hammad (historian)
Ibn Hammad (1153/4–1230 / AH 548–628, full name Abu Abd Allah Muhammad bin Ali Ibn Hammad) was a medieval Berber historian,[1] author of a chronicle the Fatimid caliphs in the Maghreb, known as Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum ("account of the kings of the house of Ubaid and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was a member of the Banu Hammad clan, born shortly after the end of their rule of central Maghreb.
Editions
- Histoires des Rois Obaidides, ed. and trans. M. Vanderyheiden, Paris, 1927.
- Akhbar muluk Bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum: Tahlil li-tarikh al-Dawlah al-Fatimiyah min khilal masdar turathi , Dar al-Ulum, 1981, ISBN 978-977-286-267-2
Notes
- ↑ Jeremy Johns, Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 265.
References
- J. F. P. Hopkins, Nehemia Levtzion, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-55876-241-8, ISBN 978-1-55876-241-1., p. 154.
See also
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