Kitab al-'Uyun
Author | Anonymous author |
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Original title | Kitab al-'uyun wa'l-hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq كتاب العيون والحدائق في أخبار الحقائق |
Language | Arabic |
Subject | Chronicle covering Muslim history |
Genre | Historical biography of events |
Publication date | Late 11th century |
Pages | volumes (Only the third and fourth volumes of the work survive) |
The Kitab al-'uyun wa'l-hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq (
up to the year 961 AD. The author of the work is anonymous, but the text was likely written in the late eleventh century.The contents of the Kitab al-'Uyun are organized by the reigns of successive caliphs and are loosely subdivided in an
North African
authors.
Only the third and fourth volumes of the work survive. The third volume, covering the period from the beginning of the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid (r. 705–715) to the death of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim (died 842), was published by Michael Jan de Goeje and Pieter de Jong in 1869. The fourth volume, published by Omar Saïdi in 1972, only survives from page 47 on and therefore begins in 870 during the reign of al-Muhtadi (r. 869–870), and continues until 961.
References
- ISBN 0-521-32763-6.
- de Goeje, M.J.; de Jong, P., eds. (1869). Kitab al-'Uyun wa'l-Hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
- S2CID 163120147.
- Saïdi, Amor (June 1970). "Préface à une édition du Kitāb al-ʿUyūn wa-l-ḥadāʾiq fī aḫbār al-ḥaqāʾiq, Volume IV". Arabica. 17 (2): 161–176. JSTOR 4055517.