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{{Short description|Egyptian historian (801-871)}}
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'''Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam''' ([[Classical Arabic|Arabic]]: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم),<ref>{{Citation|url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/12782549/_abd_al-rahman_ibn__abd_allah_ibn__abd_al-h_akam/|title=''ʿAbd al-Rahmân ibn ʿAbd Allâh Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam''|website=data.bnf.fr}}</ref> generally known simply as '''Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam''' ([[Classical Arabic|Arabic]]: ابن عبد الحكم) (801 AD - 257 A.H/ 871 A.D at [[Fustat|al-Fustat]] near [[Cairo]]<ref>Torrey, p.1 of preface to Arabic edition.</ref>) was an [[Arabs|Arab]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk7BS9XC10QC&pg=PT81|title=The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In|date=2010-12-09|publisher=Orion|isbn=978-0-297-86559-9|pages=81|language=en}}</ref> historian born in Fustat, Egypt who wrote a work generally known as " The Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and [[Spain]] ([[Andalusia]]) " ({{lang-ar|فتح مصر و المغرب و الاندلس}}, ''Futūḥ mișr wa'l maghrab wa'l andalus''). This work is considered one of the earliest [[Arabic]] Islamic histories to have survived to the present day.▼
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| birth_date = {{circa|800}} <br /> {{AH|187}}
| birth_place = [[Egypt]]
| death_date = {{circa|871}} <br /> {{AH|257}}
| death_place = [[Egypt]], [[Fustat]]
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| era = [[Islamic Golden Age]]
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| occupation = [[Muhaddith]], [[Scholarly method|Scholar]], [[Historian]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Maliki]]
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| main_interests = [[Fiqh]], [[Hadith studies|Hadith]], [[History]]
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▲'''Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam''' (
==Life==
Ibn Abd al-Hakam came from an Arab family.<ref name=":0" /> The author's father
Although much quoted by early traditionists and historians, they are rarely mentioned by name because of a family disgrace. In the reign of the caliph [[ ==Works==
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A critical edition of the entire Arabic text was published by [[Charles Torrey]], who had earlier translated the North African section into English. A short portion of the work covering only the [[Muslim conquest of Spain]] was translated into English by John Harris Jones (Göttingen, W. Fr. Kaestner, 1432, pp. 32–36). The Spanish and North African sections have also been translated into French and Spanish by a number of historians. However, these account for only a small part of the book. Most of the work is devoted to the legendary pre-Islamic history of Egypt, [[Muslim conquest of Egypt|The Muslim conquest of Egypt]], The [[Muslim conquest of North Africa]], its early Muslim settlements and its first Islamic judges.
His work is an almost invaluable source as arguably the earliest Arab account of the [[Early Muslim conquests|Islamic conquests]] of the countries it deals with. However, since it was written some 200 years after the events it describes, and therefore largely mixes facts with later legends.<ref>See the critical study by Brunschvig, who attempts to sort the historical from the legendary.</ref>
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