Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al-Razi

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Aḥmad al-Rāzī (April 888 – 1 November 955), full name Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Rāzī al-Kinānī,

Muslim historian of Persian origin who wrote the first narrative history of Islamic rule in Spain.[2] Later Muslim historians considered him the father of Islamic historiography in Spain and the first to provide a narrative framework rather than bare facts.[3]

A native of

genealogies
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Life

Aḥmad al-Rāzī was born in April 888 in Córdoba, then the capital of the

ʿĪsā al-Rāzī.[2]

Writings

Aḥmad al-Rāzī wrote four known works in Arabic, but none survives complete:[1]

The Akhbār mulūk, including its continuation, is a lost work. It is known only from quotations by other historians and a late medieval translation of a part of it.

Umayyad conquest in 711 down to the author's present.[4] It seems that Aḥmad's work extended to the accession of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III in 912, after which his son took over.[2]

Among those authors who quote the Akhbār mulūk are

Arab. This translation is lost, but it was the main source for the Cronica geral de Espanha de 1344 of King Denis's son, Pedro Afonso. This too is lost.[4]

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Both Portuguese works, however, were translated into Castilian and copies of these translations survive. The Castilian version of the Akhbār mulūk, called the Crónica del moro Rasis (Chronicle of the Moor al-Rāzī), dates to about 1425/1430. It survives in three 15th-century manuscripts.[2][4] It is limited to the first and second parts of the original work. The Castilian version of the Cronica geral survives in two manuscripts from between the 14th and 16th centuries. It preserves more of the original, including an abridged version of the conquest of 711 and the Islamic period.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Penelas 2010, p. 288.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Collins 2012, pp. 18–19.
  3. ^ Fierro 2005, p. 118.
  4. ^ a b c d e Penelas 2010, pp. 289–291.
  5. ^ Penelas 2010, pp. 288–289.

Bibliography

Works cited

  • ISBN 978-1-118-73001-0
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  • Fierro, Maribel (2005). ʿAbd al-Rahman III: The First Cordoban Caliph. Oneworld Publications.
  • Penelas, Mayte (2010). "Aḥmad al-Rāzī". In David Thomas; Alex Mallett (eds.). Christian–Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Vol. 2 (900–1050). Brill. pp. 288–292.

Further reading

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