Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, () was a 14th-century
Samaritan
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chronicler. His major work is ''Kitab al-Ta'rikh'' ().
Kitab al-Ta'rikh
This work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas,
Samaritan High Priest
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, and begun in 1356. It is an
Arabic
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compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from
Adam
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to
Mohammed
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.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Samaritan Language and Literature
/ref> This book is the oldest and most complete Samaritan work that has survived until the present day.
References
Further reading
* Paul Stenhouse
Paul Francis Lester Stenhouse (9 December 1935 – 19 November 2019) was an Australian Catholic priest and editor. A member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, he was a scholar, linguist, expert on Samaritan studies, writer, historian, and ...
''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'' by Eduard Vilmar (Gotha
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, 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).
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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The Kitāb al-Tarīkh of Abu 'l Fath: a new edition
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14th-century historians of the medieval Islamic world
14th-century Asian people
Muslim chroniclers
Medieval Samaritan people