Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
Hishām ibn al-Kalbī | |
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| Notable work(s) | Jamharat al-Ansab, Kitab al-Asnam |
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Hishām ibn al-Kalbī (
Fihrist, he wrote 140 works. His account of the genealogies of the Arabs is continually quoted in the Kitab al-Aghani.[3]
Hisham established a genealogical link between
In 1966, Werner Caskel compiled a two volume study of Ibn al-Kalbi's Jamharat al-Nasab ("The Abundance of Kinship") entitled Das genealogische Werk des Hisam Ibn Muhammad al Kalbi ("The Genealogical Works of Hisham ibn Muhammad al-Kalbi").[4] It contains a prosopographic register of every individual mentioned in the genealogy in addition to more than three hundred genealogical tables based on the contents of the text.
Works
Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- The Book of Idols (Kitab Al-Asnam)
- The Abundance of Kinship (Jamharat Al-Ansab)
References
- ^ a b c ""Arabia" in Ancient History". Centre for Sinai. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ISBN 978-0-19-753071-9.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ḥishām ibn al-Kalbī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 525–526.
- ^ Caskel, Werner; Strenziok, Gert (1966). Ǧamharat an-nasab: das genealogische Werk des Hišām Ibn-Muḥammad al-Kalbī. Leiden: Brill.
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