Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbī Bakr al-Ṣanhāj̲ī, known as Ibn Ḥammād () or Ibn Ḥamādu (1153/54–1230 / AH 548–628), was a medieval

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,Jeremy Johns, ''Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan'', (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 265. author of a chronicle on the

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caliphs in the

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, known as ' ("account of the kings of the house of

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and their deeds"), written in 1220 / AH 617. He was related to the Banu Hammad and a native of a village near their '' Qal'a.''

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*''Histoires des Rois Obaidides'', ed. and trans. M. Vanderyheiden, Paris, 1927. *''Akhbar muluk Bani Ubayd wa-siratuhum: Tahlil li-tarikh al-Dawlah al-Fatimiyah min khilal masdar turathi '', Dar al-Ulum, 1981,

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*J. F. P. Hopkins,

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, ''Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history'', Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000, , ., p. 15

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