14th-century Samaritan chronicler
Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, (Arabic:أبو الفتح إبن أبي الحسن السامري) was a 14th-centurySamaritan chronicler. His major work isKitab al-Ta'rikh (Arabic:كتاب التاريخ).
This work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas,Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is anArabic compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources,[1] running fromAdam toMohammed.[2] This book is the oldest and most complete Samaritan work that has survived until the present day.[3]
- Paul Stenhouse,The Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu 'l-Fath (Sydney, Mandelbaum, 1985). Publisher description: "Based on an analysis of all the important MSS and accompanied by copious notes on the Arabic original, this work is the first translation of the whole of this most important of the Samaritan chronicles into English."
- Abulfathi annales Samaritani byEduard Vilmar (Gotha, 1865).
- Abu L-Fath Al-Samiri Al-Danafi,Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu L'Fath Al Samiri Al Danafi (Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2002) (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 10). Milka Levy-Rubin (translator).
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