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Translated by Dr. Philip Kh ri Hitti in 1916, The Origins of the
Islamic State, or the Kit b Fut al-Buld n in Arabic, was an
unparalleled source of Islamic history and culture in the early
20th century, and is still renowned today as one of the greatest
accounts of Arabic history. This book is coveted for its historical
tracing of events to the source, despite the work being incomplete
as much of the original manuscripts were lost after the sixteenth
century. This made the work especially difficult to translate, but
even so, it remains one of the most well-documented accounts of
Muslim history. The work covers the conquest of nations such as
Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Africa, and Persia. The Fut
al-Buld n is widely-recognized as author al-Biladuri's chief
surviving work, and was oft used by later historians to write their
own Arabic histories. AHMAD BIN YAHYA BIN JABIR AL BILADURI (d.
892) was a Persian historian from the Ninth Century, considered
today as a reliable source of early Arabic and Islamic history,
particularly of the Muslim expansion. He lived at the court of the
caliphs Al-Mutawakkil and Al-Musta'in in Baghdad, and served as
tutor to al-Mutazz's son. He died in 892 from an overdose of the
drug baladhur (from which Al Biladuri's name is derived).
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