Ibn Hammad (historian)

Ibn Hammad
ابن حماد
Born1153
Qal'at Bani Hammad
Died1230
Marrakesh
Occupation(s)Historian, qadi, scholar
EraPost-classical history
Notable work
  • Akhbar Muluk Bani Ubayd
  • Al-Nubadh al-Muhtaja fi Akhbar Muluk Sanhaja bi-Ifriqiya wa-Bajaia
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Shams al-Dīn
Patronymic (Nasab)Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī
Teknonymic (Kunya)ʾAbū ʿAbd Allāh
Epithet (Laqab)Ibn Ḥamād

Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād (Arabic: ابن حماد) or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 / AH 548–628), was a medieval Berber qadi and historian,[1][2] author of a chronicle on the Fatimid caliphs in the Maghreb, known as Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum ("account of the kings of the house of Ubaid and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was related to the Banu Hammad and a native of a village near their Qal'a.[2]

  1. ^ Jeremy Johns, Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 265.
  2. ^ a b Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P., eds. (1986) [1971]. "Ibn Ḥamādu". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9004081186.