Al-Azraqi
Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah Al-Azraqi (
Arabic: محمد بن عبد الله الأزرقي) was a 9th-century Islamic commentator and historian, and author of the Kitab Akhbar Makka (Book of Reports about Mecca).[1][2][3]
Al-Azraqi was from a family who lived in
Great Mosque of Damascus.[4]
The key manuscript of Akhbar Makka is Leiden, University Library, Or.424.[3] The only printed edition is volume one of Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, ed. by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, 4 vols (Leipzig 1858-61), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4.
References
- OCLC 32149369.
- ISBN 9773411273.
- ^ ISBN 90-04-18464-3.
- ^ King, G. R. D. 2004. The Paintings of the Pre-Islamic Ka'ba. In Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, XXI, 219-230