Al-Iklil

Kitāb al-Iklīl
AuthorAbu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani
Original titleKitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar
LanguageArabic (translated into German in 1881)
GenreHistory of Yemen
PublisherVarious (see below)
Publication placeYemen

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.