The Latin conquest of Muslim Sicily started from Christian Malta

Abstract

Al Athir’s world history, the al- Kāmil fi t-tarīkh, was edited by Carl

Tornberg and published in 14 vol- umes in Leiden (Holland) under

the title of Ibn al-Athīr Chronicon

quod perfectissinum inscribitur be- tween 1851 and 1876. Al Athir

covered what he considered to be the history of the world up to the

year 1231, and his chronicle be- came a historical canon for anyone

wishing to write about the Arabs. The first part of this work covers up to AH 310 (AD 923) and is an abbreviation of the work of Tabarī with minor additions. Ibn Athir also wrote a history of the Atabegs of Mosul at-Tarīkh al-atabakīya, which was published in the Recueil des historiens des croisades (vol. ii, Paris). Other works by Al Athir are Usd al-Ghdba, which contains an account of 7,500 companions of the prophet Muhammad (5 vols, Cairo, 1863), and a compendium (the Lubāb) of Samani’s Kitāb ui-A n.~db (cf. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld’s Specimen el-Lobabi, Gottingen, 1835).