Title(s):
- History of the world
- كتاب تاريخ العالم والمبدا والانبياء والملوك والامم والخلفاء والملوك فى الاسلام (kitāb ta’rīkhi ’l-‘ālam wa’l-mubdā’ wa’l-anbiyā’ wa’l-mulūk wa’l-umām wa’l-khulafā’ wa’l-mulūk fī ’l-islām, Book of the history of the world, of the creation, of the prophets, of the kings, of the nations, of the caliphs and of the Islamic kings)
Period covered:
Creation-al-Mutawakkil (847-861)
Language:
Arabic
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Chronicle (narrative chronicle)
Remarks:
The historical work of Hunayn ibn Ishaq is only recorded by Ibn Abi Usaibiah, according to whom it started from Adam and went through the kings of Israel, Greece, Byzantium and Islam until the author's time. It may have been in Syriac.
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