Abu l-Fath

Abu l-Fath, or Ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, was a fourteenth-century Samaritan chronicler, writing in Arabic. His major work is Kitab al-Ta'rikh.

The work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas, Samaritan high priest, and begun in 1356. It is a compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources,[1] running from Adam to Mohammed.[2]

It was edited by Eduard Vilmar as Abulfathi annales Samaritani (Gotha, 1865).

Notes

  1. Alan David Crown, Reinhard Pummer, Abraham Tal, A Companion to Samaritan Studies (1993), p. 8.
  2. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Samaritan Language and Literature

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