About Ibn Hammad
Lived 1153 – 1230 (aged 76–77). Ibn Hammad was a historian, poet, scholar and literary scholar.
Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 / AH 548–628), was a medieval Berber qadi and historian, author of a chronicle on the Fatimid caliphs in the Maghreb, known as ("account of the kings of the house of Ubaid and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was related to the Banu Hammad and a native of a village near their Qal'a.
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,
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Who was Ibn Hammad?
historian, poet
When was Ibn Hammad born?
Ibn Hammad was born in 1153.
When did Ibn Hammad die?
Ibn Hammad died in 1230.
What was Ibn Hammad's occupation?
Ibn Hammad was a historian, poet, scholar and literary scholar.
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