Ibn Hammad (historian)

Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 / AH 548–628), was a medieval Berber qadi and historian,[1][2] author of a chronicle on 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 related to the Banu Hammad and a native of a village near their Qal'a.[2]

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

1. Jeremy Johns, Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 265.
2. Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P., eds. (1986) [1971]. "Ibn Ḥamādu". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9004081186.

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

• Muslim conquest of the Maghreb