Ibn al-Furat

Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʿAlī al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanafī (1334–1405), better known as Ibn al-Furāt, was an Egyptian historian, best known for his universal history, Taʾrīkh al-duwal wa ’l-mulūk ("History of the Dynasties and Kingdoms").[1] The work remained unfinished (only the volumes dealing with the years after 1106 were completed) and survives in fragments of the original autograph manuscript, mostly preserved in Vienna.[1] It was not widely esteemed or disseminated among his contemporary and later Muslim historians, but Ibn al-Furat's work is of particular importance for modern scholars due to its high level of detail and the mostly verbatim use of a wide variety of sources, including Christian and Shia authors suspect to mainstream orthodox Sunni historiography. Some of these works survive only through Ibn al-Furat's reuse of them.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cahen 1971, pp. 768–769.

Further reading

  • Ibn al-Furat (1971). Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed. Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders: Text. 1. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. W. Heffer.
  • Ibn al-Furat (1971). Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed. Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders; selections from the Tarikh al-duwal wa'l-Muluk. 2. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. Cambridge: W. Heffer.
  • Ibn al-Furat; le Strange (1900). "The Death of the Last Abbasid Caliph, from the Vatican MS. of Ibn al-Furat". JRAS. 32: 293–300.

Sources

  • Cahen, Claude (1971). "Ibn al-Furāt". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 768–769. ISBN 90-04-08118-6.
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