Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher

“ His great history, the Kāmil, extends to the year 1231; it has been edited by C. J. Tornberg, Ibn al-Athiri Chronicon quod perfectissimum inscribitur (14 vols., Leiden, 1851–1876) , and has been published in 12 vols. in Cairo (1873 and 1886) . ”

“ Ibn Athīr also wrote a history of the Atabegs of Mosul, published in the Recueil des historiens des croisades (vol. ii., Paris) ; a work (Usd ul-Ghāba) , giving an account of 7500 companions of Mahomet (5 vols., Cairo, 1863) , and a compendium (the Lubāb) of Sam‛āni’s Kitāb ul-Anṣāb (cf. F. Wüstenfeld’s Specimen el-Lobabi, Göttingen, 1835) . ”