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IBN HISHAM [
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Abu Mahommed 'Abdulmalik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub ul-Himyari] (d. 834)  , Arabian biographer, studied in Kuf a but lived afterwards in Fostat (old
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Cairo), where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of
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language and
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history . His
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chief
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work is his edition of
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Ibn Ishaq's (q.v.)
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Life of the Apostle of
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God, which has been edited by F . Wiistenfeld (
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Gottingen, 1858–186o) . An abridged
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German
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translation has been made by G . Weil (
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Stuttgart, 1864; cf . P . Bronnle,
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Die Conzmentatoren
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des Ibn Ishaq and ihre Scholien,
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Halle, 1895)., Ibn Hisham is said to have written a work explaining the difficult words which occur in poems on the life of the Apostle, and another on the genealogies of the Himyarites and their princes . (G . W .

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