Abu Mikhnaf

Abū Mikhnaf, full name Abū Lut ibn Yahya al - Mikhnaf azdi / أبو مخنف لوط بن يحيى الأزدي / Abū Miḫnaf LUT b. Yahya al - azdi († 774), was an eminent Arab historian at the time of the Umayyad effective field Kufa. His grandfather was the leading figure of the Iraqi tribe of Azd and a faithful follower of Ali ibn Abi Talib. Abū Mikhnaf inclinations were rumored to Shiism. In fact, he treated the Iraqi opposition movements against the Umayyads in his historical monographs that have been preserved in the works of his successors, especially in at- Tabari and al - Baladhuri, with remarkable detail.

His works are preserved only in late copies and only fragmentary; his book on the assassination of al -Husayn ibn ' Alī was translated into German of the German orientalist Ferdinand Wüstefeld: Death Husein and revenge. His report on the so-called " penitents ", al - tawwabūn / التوابون / al - tawwābūn, the followers of the Shiite martyr al -Husayn is get annalistischer world history in at- Tabari. This report is a literary gem ancient Arab prose in the style of a Passion story and goes, according to the state of research, the monograph Abū Michnafs under the title kitāb Sulaimān ibn Surad wa - ʿ Ayn al- Warda / كتاب سليمان بن صرد وعين الوردة / Kitāb Sulaimān b. Ṣurad wa - ʿ Ayn al- Warda /, Report on Sulaimān ibn Surad and ( the battle of ) ʿ Ayn al- Warda ' back. Among his writings also the monograph on the election of Abu Bakr and the role of the Medinan opposition under the leadership of Sa ʿ d ibn ʿ ibn Ubada Dulaim is called: Kitaab as- Saqīfa كتاب السقيفة /, The Report on the portico '. This refers to the portico of the Banu Sa'ida the Ansar, where the election of the first caliph took place.

The Kitāb al - Garat about the early Islamic military campaigns to the Battle of Siffin, Ursula Sezgin, with regard to the erroneous information in Fuat Sezgin (1967, p 309), as a work of Abū identified Miḫnaf and detail in her thesis in 1971 analyzed. The correction for this was made in 1981 by pointing out that in the investigated material no work of Abū Miḫnaf, but part of an extensive compilation of the conquest from the pen of the historian later Muḥammad b. ʿ Alī b. A ʿ Tam Kufi ( † against 926 ) is present.

His monographs on the historical events in Iraq under the Umayyads were known even in the late 10th century: Ibn an - Nadim in his Fihrist leads 33 title.

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