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Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, (Arabic: أبو الفتح إبن أبي الحسن السامري) was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. His major work is: Kitab al-Ta'rikh (Arabic: كتاب التاريخ). The work was commissioned in 1352 by, Pinḥas, Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is a compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from Adam——to Mohammed. It was edited by Eduard Vilmar as Abulfathi annales Samaritani (Gotha, 1865).

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Further reading※

• Paul Stenhouse, The Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu 'l-Fath (Sydney, "Mandelbaum," 1985). Publisher description: "Based on an analysis of all the: important MSS and accompanied by copious notes on the——Arabic original, this work is the "first translation of the whole of this most important of the Samaritan chronicles into English.""
• Abu L-Fath Al-Samiri Al-Danafi, Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu L'Fath Al Samiri Al Danafi (Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2002) (Studies in Late Antiquity and "Early Islam," No. 10). Milka Levy-Rubin (translator).

External links※

• Ab al-Fat ibn Ab al-asan, al-Smir, and Vilmar, Eduardus (1865): Abulfathi Annales Samaritani: quos Arabice edidit cum prolegomenis