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Al-Iklīl
encyclopaedia by al-Hamdānī
Also known as: “The Crown”
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discussed in biography
- In al-Hamdānī
His encyclopaedia Al-Iklīl (“The Crown”; Eng. trans. of vol. 8 by N.A. Faris as The Antiquities of South Arabia) and his other writings are a major source of information on Arabia, providing a valuable anthology of South Arabian poetry as well as much genealogical, topographical, and historical…
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sources of pre-Islamic Arabian religions
- In Arabian religion: Sources of modern knowledge
…and in “The Crown” (al-Iklīl), by the Yemeni encyclopaedist and geographer al-Hamdānī (9th–10th century ce), which describes the pre-Islamic antiquities of Yemen.
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