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

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

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