Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥayyān al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī () (987–1075), usually known as Ibn Hayyan, was an
Arab
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Muslim
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historian
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from
Al-Andalus
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. His work provides an early reference to Viking raiders, called ''Majus'' by him.
Works
The following works are ascribed to Ibn Hayyan:
*''Tarikh Fuqaha Qurtuba''
*''Al-Kitab al ladi Jama'a fihi bayna Kitbay al-Qubbashi wa Ibn Afif''
*''Intijab al-Jamil li Ma'athir Banu Khatab''
*''Al-Akhbar fi'l Dawla al-Amiriya'' (in 100 volumes)
*''Al-Batsha al-Kubra'' (in ten volumes).
*''Al-Muqtabis fi Tarikh al-Andalus'' (in ten volumes)
*''Kitab al-Matin''.
His best-known works are ''al-Muqtabis''
and ''al-Matin''.
References
*Abd al-Rahman al-Hajji (ed.), ''Al-Muqtabis''. Beirut: 1965. Partial Spanish translation in F. Corriente and M.J. Viguera, ''Cronica del Califa Abdurrahmen III entre les anos 912 y 942'' (Zaragoza, 1981)
*David J. Wasserstein. ''The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula''.
External links
Muslim Heritage.com: Historians in North Africa and Spain
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987 births
1075 deaths
11th-century Arabic-language writers
11th-century historians from al-Andalus
Court scholars
11th-century writers from al-Andalus
People from Córdoba, Spain