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Kitāb al-ilmām bi-man malaka al-ḥabaša min mulūk al-Islām
كتاب الالمام بمن ملك الحبشة من ملوك الاسلام
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The work is entirely devoted to Ethiopia and consists of three chapters concerning the land of al-Ḥabaša, the land of Zaylaʻ, the history of the Wälšmaʻ dynasty. It is important as supplement and counterpart to the Ethiopian sources.
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- Mentioned in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, volume 3, He-O on page 769-771
- Mentioned in Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Band 2 on page 40
- Mentioned in Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Zweiter S... on page 37
- Mentioned in Muʻǧam al-ta'rīḫ al-turāṯ al-islāmiyya fī makta... on page 351, n. 948/6