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§ 453. Abū ’l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. M. b. al-Ḥasan al-Kātib, Governor of Qum, having searched in vain for a history of the town, his brother, Ḥasan b. M. b. Ḥasan Qummī,¹ compiled an Arabic history, apparently in 378/988–9, and dedicated ¶ it to Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbād, the famous Wazīr of the Buwaihids Muʾaiyid al-Daulah and Fak̲h̲r al-Daulah (see Ency. Isl. under Ibn ʿAbbād).

Arabic original: no copies recorded (in Mas̲h̲had iii p. 116 it is described as “ʿazīz al-wujūd”).

Persian translation made in 825/1422 (according to Rieu) or in 806/1403–4 (according to Browne) by Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qummī:² (Tārīk̲h̲ i Qum or Kitāb i Qum or Qum-nāmah): Rieu Suppt. 88 (only the first five of the twenty bābs, viz. (1) origin and topography, (2) surveys and taxation, (3) descendants of Abū Ṭālib, (4) Arab settlers of the family of Mālik b. ʿĀmir al-As̲h̲ʿarī, (5) the As̲h̲ʿarīs after conversion to Islām. 15th cent.), Browne Coll. i. 4 (14) = Houtum-Schindler 29 (first seven (of the eight) fuṣūl of Bāb i), i. 5 = Houtum-Schindler 30 (first five bābs. ah 1286/1869–70).

Edition (of Bābs i–v): k. Tārīk̲h̲ i Qum, Ṭihrān 1353/1934‡ (with notes by S. Jalāl al-Dīn Ṭihrānī. See Luzac’s Oriental List, vol. xlvi, no. 2 (April–June 1935), p. 69).

§ 454. M. ʿAlī b. M. Ḥusain b. ʿAlī Bahāʾ al-Dīn wrote in 1302/1884–5 at Qum his

Tārīk̲h̲ i Qum.

Edition: Ṭihrān 1327/1909 (see Mas̲h̲had iii p. 116).

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