Mohammed al-Baydhaq

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Mohammed abu Bakr ibn Ali al Sanhaji al Baydhaq (died after 1164) was a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al Baydaq (meaning pawn) was his nickname, because he was small in stature.

Title of his main work: Al moqtabass min kitabi al anssab fi maärifati al ashab (ca. 1150 )^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Al-Baydhaq ( Abû Bakr Ibn 'Alî al-Sinhâdjî), Histoire des Almohades, texte et traduction É. Lévi-Provençal, « Documents inédits d'histoire almohade », Paris , Geuthner,1928.

• Akhbār al-Mahdī Ibn Tūmart wa-bidāyat dawlat al-Muwaḥḥidīn (or. text in Arabic) ed. Al-Ribā, 1971
• Ed. in Algeria as: Kitāb Akhbār al-mahdī ibn Tūmart (Algiers: al-Mu’assasa al-Waṭaniyya li-l-Kitāb, 1982)

[edit] External links

• Al kindi catalogue [1]
• An annotated guide to Arabic autobiographical writings (ninth to nineteenth centuries c.e.)[2]