Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2006) 286-310
Keywords:
Ḥamzah al-Iṣfahānī,
;
Bible Chronology
;
Early works to 1800
;
Jews Historiography
;
Islam Relations Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ḥamza b. al-Ḥasan¹ [b.] al-Muʾaddib al-Iṣfahānī, referred to by later authors simply as “Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī,” was born around the year 280/893 in the Iranian city of Isfahan, where he was to die sometime between 350/961 and 360/971.² We know nothing of his childhood, nor of his early education, which he seems to have acquired in his native city, ruled by the Ziyārid dynasty.³ Apart from three visits to Baghdad, Ḥamza seems to have spent most of his life in Isfahan, and he describes its history in his Tārīḫ Iṣbahān, also known as Kitāb Iṣbahān wa-aḫbārihā.
Note:
Appeared also in "Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies (2019) 183-201.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.15
URL:
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