WAQIDI [

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• ABU

Abu `Abdallah Mahommed

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• IBN

ibn `

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• UMAR

Umar ul-Wagidi] (747-823)  , Arabian historian, was born at Medina, where he became a corn-dealer but was compelled tc flee from his creditors (owing largely to his generosity) to Bagdad . Here the Barmecide, vizier Yahya b . Khalid (see BARMECIDES) gave him means and made him cadi in the western district of the city . In 819 he was transferred to Rosafa (Rusafa) on the east side . His greatest work is the Kitab ul-Maghdzi, or history of Mahomet's campaigns . The first third of the Kstab ul-Maghdzi (one leaf missing) was published by A. von Kremer from a Damascus MS . (Calcutta, 1856) . Sprenger in his Leben Muhammad's used a British Museum MS. containing the first half, all but one leaf . J . Wellhausen published an abridged German translation from another British Museum MS. under the title Muhammad in Medina (Berlin, 1882) . Ascribed to Wagidi, but probably written at the time of the Crusades to incite the Moslems against the Christians, are several works on the conquests of Islam . One of the best known is the Futult ush-Sham, edited by W .

Nassau Lees (Calcutta, 1854–1862; Cairo, 1865) . M . J. de Goeje, in his Memoires sur la conque"te de la Syrie (Leiden, 1900), holds that this work is founded on that of Abu Hudhaifa ul-Bukhari, which in turn is an edition of the real Waqidi . See ARABIA, Literature, section " History." (G . W .