Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, ( ar, أبو الفتح إبن أبي الحسن السامري) was a 14th-century
Samaritan chronicler. His major work is ''Kitab al-Ta'rikh'' ( ar, كتاب التاريخ). The work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas,
Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is a compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from
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as ''Abulfathi annales Samaritani'' ( Gotha, 1865).
References
Further reading
* Paul Stenhouse
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''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."
* 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).
External links
* Ab al-Fat ibn Ab al-asan, al-Smir, and Vilmar, Eduardus (1865):
Abulfathi Annales Samaritani: quos Arabice edidit cum prolegomenis
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14th-century historians of the medieval Islamic world
14th-century Asian people
Chroniclers
Medieval Samaritan people