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Ibn A'tham al-Kufi

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Although he provides a useful narrative, his chief value is as a source of information about what texts were circulating in early 9th-century Iraq. He often acts as an early eyewitness to texts later used by more serious and formal historians (such as
230:) from the 10th century on, thereby indirectly providing information about how later historians made use of those sources. He himself did not do original research, but compiled and collated from circulating histories. 437: 300: 432: 378: 447: 442: 163:(908–932). The whole compilation including the continuations was considered a work of Ibn Aʿtham by the 13th-century biographer 369:
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315: 207: 199: 400: 203: 215: 148: 387: 211: 175: 194:, with al-Madaʾinī being the most cited. His narrative is fullest for the period from the reign of 191: 219: 147:
1199/1200). Ibn Aʿtham later returned to his work, however, and extended it down to the time of
69: 222:, but he is more detailed in his description of the internal situation in the conquered lands. 410: 121: 227: 132: 50: 45: 164: 136: 34: 94: 395: 391: 334: 426: 383: 198:
down to that of Hārūn, particularly for events in Iraq. He is a major source for the
65: 171:("Book of History"). Yāqūt ascribes two other now lost works to Ibn Aʿtham as well. 117: 77: 290:
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97:(813–833). It survives in a single two-volume manuscript, Ahmad III 2956, now in 187: 183: 160: 83: 17: 414: 179: 152: 98: 60: 195: 360: 347: 218:. He provides less detail about the conquests themselves than does 120:. At that time Ibn Aʿtham had brought his narrative down to the 75:
Although Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī's date of death is usually given as
55: 42: 348:"Sources for the Biography of the Historian Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī" 367:. In J. Hämeen-Anttila; P. Koskikallio; I. Lindstedt (eds.). 350:. In J. Hämeen-Anttila; P. Koskikallio; I. Lindstedt (eds.). 93:("Book of Conquests"), was composed during the caliphate of 54:) active in the late 8th and early 9th centuries. He was a 64:
school, a son of a student (or tradent) of the sixth
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Index

Ibn A'tham
Arabic
Arab
Muslim historian
qāṣṣ
Shīʿī
akhbārī
imam
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
AH
AD
al-Maʾmūn
Istanbul
Abbasid Civil War
Battle of Karbalāʾ
Persian
Ibn al-Mustawfī
Hārūn al-Rashīd
Sunnī
al-Muqtadir
Yāqūt
al-Madāʾinī
al-Wāḳidī
al-Zuhrī
Abū Mikhnaf
Ibn al-Kalbī
ʿUthmān
conquest of Khorasan
conquest of Armenia
conquest of Azerbaijan

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