Abu l-Feda (Ismaʿil b. ʿAli, king of Hamat in 743, died 749).
Wrote Tarikh Mukhtasir. Ed. Constantinople, 2 vols. A.H. 1329. Text and Latin trans. by Reiske: Annales Moslemici, 5 vols., Copenhagen, A.D. 1789-1794.
Also Taqwimu l-Buldan, ed. with Lat. trans., Graevius, 1650. Republished, ed. Hudson, Oxford, 1712.
Fihrist. The Fihrist of Muhammad b. Ishaq an-Nadim.
Ed. Fluegel, Leipzig, 1871. Written circ. 378 (= A.D. 988), invaluable for earlier Shiʿite history. Many authors such as Akhu Muhsin, Ibn Razzam, etc., are known only by citations in the Fihrist.
Gregory Bar Hebraeus or Abu l-Faraj.
d. A.D. 1286. His great history was planned in three parts, of which part i. “the history of the dynasties” deals with political history. Syriac text edited by Bedjan, Paris, 1890. The Arabic translation by the author is enriched with matter which does not occur in the Syriac, ed. Pococke, Oxford, 1663; Arabic text Beirut, 1890.
Al-Kairawani. Muhammad b. ʿAli r-Rayni al-Kairawani.
Ed. Pellisier et Rémusat, Sciences hist. et géogr. vii. Paris, 1845. (Explorat. scientifique de l’Algérie.)