Ibn Miskawayh, Abu Ali Ahmad Ibn Muhammad

Ibn Miskawayh, Abu Ali Ahmad Ibn Muhammad 

Date of birth unknown; died 1030. Historian and philosopher who wrote in Arabic.

Ibn Miskawayh wrote the Book of Experiences of the Nations, the first significant work of general history after Tabari. The sections on the history of the caliphate in the tenth century are particularly important. He also wrote treatises on philosophy and ethics.

WORKS

The Tajârib al-Umam, or History of Ibn Miskwayh, vols. 1–5, 6. Edited by L. Caetani. Leiden-London, 1909–17.

REFERENCES

Shmidt, A. E. “Rukopis’ 3 toma Vsemirnoi istorii IbnMiskaveikha.” In Trudy gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki Uzbekskoi SSR, vol. 1. Tashkent, 1936. Pages 118–33.
Shuster, B. la. “Shestoi tom Vsemirnoi istorii Ibn Miskaveikha kak istochnik po sotsial’nym otnosheniiam v pozdnem khalifate.” Kratkie soobshcheniia In-ta narodov Azii, 1961, vol. 47.
Arkoun, M. Contribution à I’étude de I’humanisme arabe au IVe–Xe siecle: Miskawayh (320/325–421)—(932/936–1030) philosophe et historien. Paris, 1970. (Contains a bibliography.)