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Kitab al-'Uyun
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<p>The <i>Kitab al-'uyun wa'l-hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq</i> (<a href="/facts/Arabic_language/A1e66hVV">Arabic</a>: كتاب العيون والحدائق في أخبار الحقائق) is an Arabic <a href="/facts/Chronicle/LdsQuNGY">chronicle</a> covering <a href="/facts/History_of_Islam/E3tqBlMm">Muslim history</a> up to the year 961 AD. The author of the work is anonymous, but the text was likely written in the late eleventh century. </p><p>The contents of the <i>Kitab al-'Uyun</i> are organized by the reigns of successive caliphs and are loosely subdivided in an <a href="/facts/Annal/hqwI7F7p">annalistic</a> fashion. Much of the work consists of selections from the histories of <a href="/facts/Muhammad_ibn_Jarir_al-Tabari/cmM0W6IK">al-Tabari</a>, <a href="/facts/Al-Masudi/rjIMxBFN">al-Mas'udi</a>, <a href="/facts/Miskawayh/DfbsNG4j">Miskawayh</a> and <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Prophets_and_Kings/6jFBW0tq">al-Farghani</a>, but it also includes otherwise lost material from a number of other sources, especially <a href="/facts/Egypt/8Ttg0JwB">Egyptian</a> and <a href="/facts/Greater_Maghreb/oIcU24Mz">North African</a> authors. </p><p>Only the third and fourth volumes of the work survive. The third volume, covering the period from the beginning of the reign of the <a href="/facts/Umayyad_Caliphate/gdW8JwoK">Umayyad</a> caliph <a href="/facts/Al-Walid_I/7A7RYunb">al-Walid</a> (r. 705–715) to the death of the <a href="/facts/Abbasid_Caliphate/mPeLAbXt">Abbasid</a> caliph <a href="/facts/Al-Mu%2527tasim/StMmSPBX">al-Mu'tasim</a> (died 842), was published by <a href="/facts/Michael_Jan_de_Goeje/WJDpz6N4">Michael Jan de Goeje</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Al-Muhtadi/065DRRYl">al-Muhtadi</a> (r. 869–870), and continues until 961. </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Claude_Cahen/gtVIqxWb">Cahen, Claude</a> (1990). "History and historians". In Young, M.J.L.; Latham, J.D.; Serjeant, R.B. (eds.). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cJuDafHpk3oC"><i>Religion, learning and science in the 'Abbasid period</i></a>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 210–11. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-521-32763-6.</li> <li>de Goeje, M.J.; de Jong, P., eds. (1869). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K9I7AAAAcAAJ"><i>Kitab al-'Uyun wa'l-Hada'iq fi akhbar al-haqa'iq</i></a>. Leiden: E.J. Brill.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Michael_G._Morony/wmMhDarG">Morony, Michael</a> (April 1976). "Review: <i>Kitab al-'Uyun wa-l-Hada'iq fi Akhbar al-Haqa'iq: Chronique Anonyme</i> by Omar Saidi". <i>International Journal of Middle East Studies</i>. 7 (2): 306–307. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0020743800023291">10.1017/s0020743800023291</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/162612">162612</a>. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163120147">163120147</a>.</li> <li>Saïdi, Amor (June 1970). "Préface à une édition du <i>Kitāb al-ʿUyūn wa-l-ḥadāʾiq fī aḫbār al-ḥaqāʾiq</i>, Volume IV". <i>Arabica</i>. 17 (2): 161–176. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F157005870x00034">10.1163/157005870x00034</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4055517">4055517</a>.</li></ul>