‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎List of Contributors

‎The Geography (Kitāb al-Buldān) (Pagination Based on Leiden Edition of 1892)

‎Fragments

‎The Book of the Adaptation of Men to Their Time and Their Dominant Characteristics in Every Age (Mushākalat al-nās li-zamānihim wa-mā yaglibu ʿalayhim fī kull ʿaṣr)

‎The History (Taʾrīkh)

‎Introduction: The Yaʿqūbī Translation Project (Gordon)

‎Al-Yaʿqūbī and His Writings

‎The Taʾrīkh (History)

‎The Kitāb al-Buldān (Geography)

‎The Mushākala (The Adaptation of Men)

‎Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī: A Biographical Sketch ( Anthony and Gordon )

‎Manuscripts, Printed Editions, and Translations of al-Yaʿqūbī’s Works (Rowson)

‎The Taʾrīkh (History)

‎The Kitāb al-Buldān (Geography)

‎The Mushākala (The Adaptation of Men)

‎The Book of the Adaptation of Men to Their Time and Their Dominant Mushākalat al-nās li-zamānihim wa-mā yaglibu ʿalayhim fī kull ʿaṣr

‎An Account of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphs

‎The Geography Kitāb al-Buldān

‎Baghdad

‎Samarra

‎The First Quarter: The East

‎The Rural Districts (KUWAR) of al-Jabal

‎Al-Ṣaymara

‎Ḥulwān

‎Al-Dīnawar

‎Qazwīn and Zanjān

‎Azerbaijan

‎Hamadhān

‎Nihāwand

‎Al-Karaj

‎Qumm and Its Dependencies

‎Isfahan (Iṣbahān)

‎Al-Rayy

‎Qūmis

‎Ṭabaristān

‎Jurjān

‎Ṭūs

‎Nīshāpūr

‎Marw

‎Būshanj

‎Bādghīs

‎Sijistān

‎The Governors of Sijistān

‎Kirmān

‎Al-Ṭālaqān

‎Al-Jūzjān

‎Balkh

‎Marwarrūdh

‎Khuttal

‎Bukhārā

‎Sogdia (al-Ṣughd)

‎Samarqand

‎Farghāna

‎Ishtākhanj

‎Al-Shāsh

‎The Governors of Khurāsān

‎The Southern Quarter

‎The Tribal Land Allotments (Khiṭaṭ) of Kufa

‎The Stages from Kufa to Medina and Mecca

‎The City of the Messenger of God—God’s Blessings and Peace be upon Him

‎Mecca and Its Dependencies

‎From Mecca to Yemen

‎The Islands of Yemen

‎Its Ports

‎A List of the Arab Tribes Inhabiting Each Region of Yemen

‎The Third or Polar Quarter Which is the Northern Quarter

‎Basra

‎[The Western Quarter]

‎The Military District (Jund) of Ḥimṣ

‎The Military District of Damascus

‎The Military District of Jordan

‎The Military District of Palestine

‎Egypt and Its Rural Districts

‎The Gold Mines

‎[The Land of the Nubians]

‎[The Land of the Buja]

‎[Lower Egypt]

‎The Road to Mecca from Egypt

‎Al-Maghrib

‎Barqa

‎Surt

‎Waddān

‎Zawīla

‎Fazzān

‎Tripoli

‎Al-Qayrawān

‎The Peninsula of al-Andalus and Its Cities

‎We Return to the Account of Tāhart on the Main Road of the Maghrib

‎Sijilmāsa

‎Al-Sūs al-Aqṣā

‎Colophon

‎Fragments

‎A. Fragments from the Lost Part of the Geography

‎B. Fragments from Other Works

‎C. New Fragments

‎D. Passages Attributed to al-Yaʿqūbī in Ibn al-Dāya, Kitāb al-Mukāfaʾa wa-Ḥusn al-ʿUqbā

‎General Bibliography

‎I. Primary Sources

‎A. Arabic Sources

‎B. Non-Arabic Sources

‎II. Secondary Sources

‎Contents

‎The History (Taʾrīkh) Adam to Pre-Islamic Arabia

‎Seth, the Son of Adam

‎Enosh, the Son of Seth

‎Kenan, the Son of Enosh

‎Mahalalel, the Son of Kenan

‎Jared, the Son of Mahalalel

‎Enoch, the Son of Jared

‎Methuselah, the Son of Enoch

‎Lamech, the Son of Methusaleh

‎Noah

‎Shem, the Son of Noah

‎Arpachshad, the Son of Shem

‎Shelah, the Son of Arpachshad

‎Eber, the Son of Shelah

‎Peleg, the Son of Eber

‎Reu, the Son of Peleg

‎Serug, the Son of Reu

‎Nahor, the Son of Serug

‎Terah, the Son of Nahor

‎Abraham

‎Isaac, the Son of Abraham

‎Jacob, the Son of Isaac

‎The Offspring of Jacob

‎Moses, the Son of Amram

‎The Prophets and Kings of the Israelites after Moses

‎David

‎Solomon, the Son of David

‎Rehoboam, the Son of Solomon, and the Kings after Him

‎The Messiah, Jesus, the Son of Mary

‎The Kings of the Syrians

‎The Kings of Mosul and Nineveh

‎The Kings of Babel

‎The Kings of India

‎The Ancient Greeks

‎The Kings of the Greeks and the Romans

‎The Kings of the Romans

‎The Roman Kings Who Became Christian

‎The Kings of Persia

‎The Second Kingdom: From Ardashīr Bābakān

‎The Kingdoms of the North

‎The Kings of China

‎The Coptic and Other Kings of Egypt

‎The Kingdoms of the Berbers and the Africans

‎The Kingdoms of Ethiopia and the Sudan

‎The Kingdom of the Buja

‎The Kings of Yemen

‎The Kings of Syria

‎The Yemenite Kings of al-Ḥīra

‎The War of Kinda

‎The Descendants of Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm

‎The Religions of the Arabs

‎The Arbitrators of the Arabs

‎Arab Divination

‎The Poets of the Arabs

‎The Fairs of the Arabs

‎Contents

‎The History (Taʾrīkh) The Rise of Islam to the Reign of al-Muʿtamid

‎[Introduction]

‎In the Name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate

‎The Birth of the Messenger of God

‎Al-Fijār: The Sacrilegious War

‎The Pact of the Fuḍūl

‎The Rebuilding of the Kaʿba

‎The Marriage of Khadīja bt. Khuwaylid

‎The Beginning of the Prophetic Mission

‎The Night Journey

‎The Warning

‎Those Who Emigrated to Abyssinia

‎The Siege of the Messenger of God by the Quraysh and the Story of the Document

‎The Death of al-Qāsim, the Son of the Messenger of God

‎The Part of the Qurʾān That was Revealed at Mecca

‎The Deaths of Khadīja and Abū Ṭālib

‎The Messenger of God Offers Himself to the Tribes and Leaves for al-Ṭāʾif

‎The Coming of the Anṣār to Mecca

‎The Departure of the Messenger of God from Mecca

‎The Coming of the Messenger of God to Medina

‎The Imposition of the Duties of Fasting and Prayer

‎The Part of the Qurʾān That was Revealed at Medina

‎The Great Battle of Badr

‎The Battle of Uḥud

‎The Battle with the Banū l-Naḍīr

‎The Battle of the Trench

‎The Battle of the Banū Qurayẓa

‎The Battle of the Banū l-Muṣṭaliq

‎The Expedition of al-Ḥudaybiya

‎The Battle of Khaybar

‎The Conquest of Mecca

‎The Battle of Ḥunayn

‎The Expedition to Muʾta

‎The Expeditions in Which No Fighting Took Place

‎The Commanders of the Raiding Parties and Armies

‎[Those Whom the Messenger of God Sent Out to Collect the Alms Payments (Ṣadaqāt)]

‎[The Missions to Foreign Rulers]

‎The Deputations of the Arabs Who Came to the Messenger of God

‎[The Prophet’s Scribes]

‎The Wives of the Messenger of God

‎The Birth of Ibrāhīm, the Son of the Messenger of God

‎[The Slaves Whom the Messenger of God Freed]

‎[Other Notices]

‎The Messenger of God’s Sermons, Exhortations, and Moral Instructions

‎The Farewell Pilgrimage

‎The Death (of the Prophet)

‎Description of the Messenger of God

‎Those Who Resembled the Messenger of God

‎The Lineage of the Messenger of God, His Female Ancestors Back to Abraham, and the ʿĀtikas and Fāṭimas Who were His Ancestors

‎Names of the Fāṭimas Who Bore Him

‎The Governors of the Messenger of God

‎Report of the (Events at) the Portico of the Tribe of Sāʿida and the Oath of Allegiance to Abū Bakr

‎[The Days of Abū Bakr]

‎Description of Abū Bakr

‎The Days of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

‎Description of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

‎The Days of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

‎The Caliphate of the Commander of the Faithful ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib

‎The Caliphate of al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī

‎The Days of Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān

‎The Death of al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī

‎The Days of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya

‎The Death of al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī

‎The Days of Muʿāwiya b. Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya

‎The Days of Marwān b. al-Ḥakam and ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr, and Some of the Days of ʿAbd al-Malik

‎The Days of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān

‎The Days of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik

‎The Days of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik

‎The Reign of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

‎The Death of ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn

‎The Days of Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik

‎The Days of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān

‎The Death of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī

‎The Days of al-Walīd b. Yazīd

‎The Days of Yazīd b. al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik

‎The Days of Ibrāhīm b. al-Walīd

‎The Days of Marwān b. Muḥammad b. Marwān and the Daʿwa of the Banū l-ʿAbbās

‎The Days of Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ

‎The Days of Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr

‎The Death of Abū ʿAbdallāh Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad and His Praiseworthy Ways (Ādāb)

‎The Days of al-Mahdī

‎The Days of Mūsā l-Hādī b. al-Mahdī

‎The Days of Hārūn al-Rashīd

‎[The Death of Mūsā b. Jaʿfar]

‎The Days of al-Amīn

‎The Days of al-Maʾmūn

‎[The Death of ʿAlī al-Riḍā]

‎The Days of al-Muʿtaṣim Bi-llāh

‎The Days of Hārūn al-Wāthiq Bi-llāh

‎The Days of Jaʿfar al-Mutawakkil

‎The Days of Muḥammad al-Muntaṣir

‎The Days of Aḥmad al-Mustaʿīn

‎The Days of al-Muʿtazz Bi-llāh

‎The Days of Muḥammad al-Muhtadī b. Hārūn al-Wāthiq Bi-llāh

‎The Days of Aḥmad al-Muʿtamid ʿAlā-llāh

‎Indices

‎Index of Persons, Tribes, Religious and Philosophical Groups, Events

‎Index of Geographical Names