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Al-Iklil
History book by al-Hamdani (d. 940s) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kitāb al-Iklīl (Arabic: كتاب الإكليل) fully known as the Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar (Crowns from the Accounts of the Yemen and the genealogies of Ḥimyar), is a book on the ancient history of Yemen and the Himyarite Kingdom.It was written by the 10th-century grammarian, chemist and historian Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.The work was originally written and published in the 10th century in ten volumes, only four of which exist to this day.
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History
Of the ten volumes of Kitāb al-Iklīl published in the 10th century, only the first, second, eighth and tenth volumes survived intact to the present day.[1][2]
In 1881, parts of the work were translated into German by David Heinrich Müller.[3]
The historian Nabih Amin Faris compiled the four surviving volumes into an annotated work, al-Juz' al-Thamin, published in 1940 by Princeton University Press as part of the Princeton Oriental Texts collection.[2]
In 2020, a portion of the lost sixth volume was found in the archives of the Bavarian State Library in Munich and was published by a researcher in the Arabia Felix Academy.[1]
An abridged version of the texts has been made available under a Creative Commons license for reading in some online libraries.[4][5]
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Content
The first two volumes record genealogies, especially that of the family of king Sheba son of Yashjoub.[1][2][5]
The second volume contains a poem, al-Risala al-Damighah.[6] This poem has sometimes been published separately with commentaries.[6]
The eighth volume describes archaeological finds in Yemen and discusses the poetry of Dhu Jadan and Abu Karib.[1][2]
The tenth volume concerns the history of the people of Hamdan, the hometown of the author.[7]
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