Abū Michnaf
Abū Michnaf , whose full name is Abū Michnaf Lūt ibn Yahyā al-Azdī /أبو مخنف لوط بن يحيى الأزدي / Abū Miḫnaf Lūṭ b. Yahya al-Azdi (d. 774 ), was a prominent Arab historians at the time of the Umayyad effective field Kufa .
Life
His grandfather was the leading figure of the Azd tribe and a loyal follower of Ali ibn Abi Talib . Abū Michnaf were said to have a tendency to Shia . Indeed, he treats the opposition movements against the Umayyads with considerable detail in his historical monographs, which are preserved in the works of his successors, especially in at-Tabarī and al-Balādhurī .
His works have only survived in late copies and only in fragments; The German orientalist Ferdinand Wüstenfeld has translated his book about the murder of al-Husain ibn 'Alī into German: The death of disbelief and vengeance. His report on the so-called " penitents ", al-tawwabūn /التوّابون / al-tawwābūn , the followers of the Shiite martyr al-Husain, is preserved in at-Tabarīs annalistic world history. This report is a literary gem of Old Arabic prose in the style of a passion story and, according to the current state of research, is based on the monograph Abū Michnaf under the title kitāb Sulaimān ibn Surad wa-ʿAin al-Warda /كتاب سليمان بن صرد وعين الوردة / Kitāb Sulaimān b. Ṣurad wa-ʿAin al-Warda / 'Report on Sulaimān ibn Surad and (the battle of) ʿAin al-Warda'. Among his writings, the monograph on the election of Abū Bakr and on the role of the Medinan opposition under the leadership of Saʿd ibn ʿUbāda ibn Dulaim is mentioned: Kitāb as-Saqīfaكتاب السقيفة / 'The report on the portico'. What is meant is the portico of the Banu Sa'ida of the Ansar , where the election of the first caliph took place.
The Kitab al-Garat about the early Islamic campaigns until the Battle of Siffin has Ursula Sezgin, identified with reference to the incorrect information when Fuat Sezgin (1967, p.309), as a work of Abu Miḫnaf and depth in her dissertation in 1971 analyzed. The correction was made in 1981 with the note that the examined material was not a work by Abū Miḫnaf, but part of the extensive compilation about the conquests penned by the later historian Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Aʿṯam Kūfī († against 926) is available.
His monographs on the historical events in Iraq under the Umayyads were still known in the late 10th century: Ibn an-Nadīm cites 33 titles in his Fihrist .
literature
- Julius Wellhausen : The Arab Empire and its Fall , 1902. (2nd, unchanged edition 1960, reprint 2005, ISBN 1-4212-4774-7 ), digitized online .
- Ferdinand Wüstenfeld : The historians of the Arabs and their works . Göttingen 1882 (digitized online ).
- Fuat Sezgin : History of Arabic Literature . Vol. 1, pp. 308-309. Brill , Leiden 1967, ISBN 90-04-02007-1 (Reprint 1996)
- Ursula Sezgin: Abū Miḫnaf: a contribution to the historiography of the Umayyad period . Brill, Leiden 1971
- Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 1, p. 140, ISBN 90-04-08114-3
- Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 10, p. 398 (Tawwābūn), ISBN 90-04-11211-1
- Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 1, p. 789 ('Ayn al-Warda)
- Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 9, p. 826 (Sulaiman b.Surad)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Sezgin (1971), p. 111; Miklós Murányi : A New Report on the Election of the First Caliph Abū Bakr. In: Arabica 25 (1978), pp. 233-234
- ^ Abū Miḫnaf. A contribution to the historiography of the Umayyad period . Brill, Leiden 1971
- ^ Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (ZDMG), Volume 131 (1981), pp. 1–2 ( Scientific News )
- ↑ Ibn an-Nadim: Fihrist . Ed. Riḍā Taǧaddud. Tehran 1971. pp. 105-106
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abū Michnaf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | أبو مخنف لوط بن يحيى الأزدي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arabic historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century or 8th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 774 |