Author | Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani |
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Original title | Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar |
Language | Arabic (translated into German in 1881) |
Genre | History of Yemen |
Publisher | Various (see below) |
Publication place | Yemen |
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 about the ancient history of Yemen and the Himyarite Kingdom written by the 10th-century grammarian, chemist and historian Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani. It was first written and published in the 10th century in ten volumes, four of which only exist to this day.