Multiple sources of the calendaristic and chronographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Tawārīkh by Abū Shākir Ibn al-Rāhib

Abstract

In a previous paper, we have analyzed the K. al-Tawārīkh in progress of publication. As announced, here we give account of the multiplicity of sources used in that undertaking with encyclopedic character, as done before with another work of the autor. Being a scientific and historical work, not philosophical and theological, the results of this research reveal a much higher level of erudition by the author, who is in fact a great representative of the Golden Age of the medieval Coptic-Arabic literature.