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Arabic transliteration

Different approaches and methods for the romanization of Arabic exist. They vary in the way that they address the inherent problems of rendering written and spoken Arabic in the Latin alphabet; they also use different symbols for Arabic phonemes that do not exist in English or other European...

: Ansab al-Ashraf) is a history book related to Islam

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, authored by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri

Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri

Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri Arabic was a 9th century Persian historian. One of the eminent middle-eastern historians of his age , he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He traveled in Syria and Iraq, compiling information for his...

(d. 892 CE).

Overview

This was the second great historical work of al-Baladhuri, of which he is said to have written forty parts when he died. Of this work the eleventh book has been published by Wilhelm Ahlwardt (Greifswald, 1883), and another part is known in manuscript (see Journal of the German Oriental Society [Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft], vol. xxxviii, pp. 382–406).

The modern publication history of the 'Ansab' is a complicated one; several teams of editors have worked on separate, rival editions. The only complete edition is the new Damascus one (Dar al-Yaqazah, 1996-), published in 25 volumes.

External links

• http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webpubof/research/22report/as/arabic.htm