Al-Mada'ini

Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Sayf al-Qurashī l-Madāʾinī (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بْن مُحَمَّد بْن عَبْد اللَّه بْن أَبِي سيف القرشي المدائني‎) (752/3–843), better known by his nisba of al-Madāʾinī ("from al-Mada'in"), was a scholar of Iranian descent who wrote in Arabic and was active under the early Abbasids in Iraq in the first half of the 9th century. A scholar of many interests, he wrote over 200 works, but is best known as a historian.

Al-Mada'ini

Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Abī Sayf al-Qurashī l-Madāʾinī (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بْن مُحَمَّد بْن عَبْد اللَّه بْن أَبِي سيف القرشي المدائني‎) (752/3–843), better known by his nisba of al-Madāʾinī ("from al-Mada'in"), was a scholar of Iranian descent who wrote in Arabic and was active under the early Abbasids in Iraq in the first half of the 9th century. A scholar of many interests, he wrote over 200 works, but is best known as a historian.