Ibn Hammad (historian)

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Ibn Hammad (1153/4–1230 / AH 548–628, full name Abu Abd Allah Muhammad bin Ali Ibn Hammad) was a medieval Berber historian,[1] author of a chronicle the Fatimid caliphs in the Maghreb, known as Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum ("account of the kings of the house of Ubaid and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was a member of the Banu Hammad clan, born shortly after the end of their rule of central Maghreb.

Editions

  • Histoires des Rois Obaidides, ed. and trans. M. Vanderyheiden, Paris, 1927.
  • Akhbar muluk Bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum: Tahlil li-tarikh al-Dawlah al-Fatimiyah min khilal masdar turathi , Dar al-Ulum, 1981, ISBN 978-977-286-267-2

Notes

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References

See also

  • Jeremy Johns, Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 265.