The ''Kitab al-'uyun wa'l-hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq'' () is an Arabic
chronicle
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covering
Muslim history up to the year 961 AD. The author of the work is anonymous, but the text was likely written in the late eleventh century.
The contents of the ''Kitab al-'Uyun'' are organized by the reigns of successive caliphs and are loosely subdivided in an
annalistic fashion. Much of the work consists of selections from the histories of
al-Tabari,
al-Mas'udi,
Miskawayh and
al-Farghani, but it also includes otherwise lost material from a number of other sources, especially
Egypt
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ian and
North African authors.
Only the third and fourth volumes of the work survive. The third volume, covering the period from the beginning of the reign of the
Umayyad
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caliph
al-Walid (r. 705–715) to the death of the
Abbasid
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caliph
al-Mu'tasim (died 842), was published by
Michael Jan de Goeje and
Pieter de Jong in 1869. The fourth volume, published by Omar Saïdi in 1972, only survives from page 47 on and therefore begins in 870 during the reign of
al-Muhtadi (r. 869–870), and continues until 961.
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* {{cite journal , last=Saïdi , first=Amor , date= June 1970, title=Préface à une édition du ''Kitāb al-ʿUyūn wa-l-ḥadāʾiq fī aḫbār al-ḥaqāʾiq'', Volume IV , jstor=4055517 , journal= Arabica, volume=17 , issue=2 , pages= 161–176, doi= 10.1163/157005870x00034
Anonymous works
11th-century history books
11th-century Arabic-language books