The History (Ta?rikh) by Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi

Abu al-?Abbas al-Ya?qubi was a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century. On the occasion of the publication of The Works of Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi. An English translation, edited by Matthew S. Gordon, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson, and Michael Fishbein (Leiden, 2017-2018), Brill is making the classic Arabic edition of al-Ya?qubi’s Ta?rikh by M.Th. Houtsma (2 vols., 1883) available in paperback for the first time.

Volume 2 covers the period from the rise of Islam to the first years of the Reign of Caliph al-Mu?tamid ?Ala ’llah (r. from 256/870). The text ends c. 259/872-873. The current volume offers the Arabic text only. The English translation is found in Volume 3 of The Works of Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi.