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Ibn Ḥayyān , Abū Marwān Ḥayyān b. Khalaf b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥayyān b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayyān b. Wahb b. Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī (377–469/987–1076), was an historian and adīb (belletrist), and author of a general history of al-Andalus from the Arab conquest up to his time. He traced his descent from an Andalusī ancestor who converted to Islam in the second/eighth century, at the hand of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I (r. 138–72/756–88; Fierro, 74), the heir to the Marwānid line within the Umayyad dynasty
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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