Ibn Hayyan

 ( 987 Births ) 

Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥayyān al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī () (987–1075), usually known as Ibn Hayyan, was an Arab Muslim historian from Al-Andalus. His work provides an early reference to Viking raiders, called Majus by him.

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Works The following works are ascribed to Ibn Hayyan:

• Tarikh Fuqaha Qurtuba
• Al-Kitab al ladi Jama'a fihi bayna Kitbay al-Qubbashi wa Ibn Afif
• Intijab al-Jamil li Ma'athir Banu Khatab
• Al-Akhbar fi'l Dawla al-Amiriya (in 100 volumes)
• Al-Batsha al-Kubra (in ten volumes).
• Al-Muqtabis fi Tarikh al-Andalus (in ten volumes)Meouak, Mohamed, "Kitāb al-muqtabis fī ta'rīkh rijāl al-Andalus, part of Al-ta'rīkh al-kabīr." Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, 2012. Reference. 27 February 2012 < http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/christian-muslim-relations/kitab-al-muqtabis-fi-tarikh-rijal-al-andalus-part-of-al-tarikh-al-kabir-COM_23341>
• Kitab al-Matin.

His best-known works are al-Muqtabis and al-Matin.

• Abd al-Rahman al-Hajji (ed.), Al-Muqtabis. Beirut: 1965. Partial Spanish translation in F. Corriente and M.J. Viguera, Cronica del Califa Abdurrahmen III entre les anos 912 y 942 (Zaragoza, 1981)
• David J. Wasserstein. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula.

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External links

• Muslim Heritage.com: Historians in North Africa and Spain