Abu'l-Fath
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Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, (Arabic:أبو الفتح إبن أبي الحسن السامري) was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. His major work is Kitāb al-Tārīkh (Arabic:كتاب التاريخ).
Kitāb al-Tārīkh
This work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas, Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is an Arabic compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from Adam to Mohammed. This book is the oldest and most complete Samaritan work that has survived until the present day.
Further reading
- Paul Stenhouse, (Sydney, Mandelbaum, 1985). Publisher description: "Based on an analysis of all the important MSS and accompanied by copious notes on the Arabic original, this work is the first translation of the whole of this most important of the Samaritan chronicles into English."
- Abulfathi annales Samaritani by Eduard Vilmar (Gotha, 1865).
- Abu L-Fath Al-Samiri Al-Danafi, Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu L'Fath Al Samiri Al Danafi (Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2002) (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 10). Milka Levy-Rubin (translator).
External links
- Ab al-Fat ibn Ab al-asan, al-Smir, and Vilmar, Eduardus (1865):