al-Hamdani

الهمداني

c. 945 CE · 334 AH

Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Hamdani, d. AH 334 — the Yemeni polymath author of the ten-volume Iklil on Himyar's genealogies and kings 1.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Arabia
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Overview

Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Ya'qub al-Hamdani al-Yamani, who died in 334 AH (about 945 CE; the conversion is derived). 2

His works

He is the author of "al-Iklil" on the genealogies of Himyar and the days of its kings, a great and very useful book, which is completed in ten volumes according to "Kashf al-Zunun". 2 See al-Iklil.

His "Sifat Jazirat al-Arab" is also attributed to him. Sifat Jazirat al-Arab

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al-Iklil fi Ansab Himyar wa-Ayyam Mulukiha· Sifat Jazirat al-Arab

People and things also explored

al-Iklil fi Ansab Himyar wa-Ayyam Mulukiha· Sifat Jazirat al-Arab

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 556
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.556
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al-Iklil fi Ansab Himyar wa-Ayyam Mulukiha

Al-Hamdani's Iklil — the ten-volume crown of Himyarite genealogy and regnal lore, interleaved with conjunction-reckoning, natural philosophy and the ancients' views on world ages.