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WAQIDI [Abu `Abdallah Mahommed ibn `Umar ul-Wagidi] (747-823) , Arabian historian, was born at Medina, where he became a corn-dealer but was compelled tc flee from his creditors (owing largely to his generosity) to Bagdad. Here the Barmecide, vizier
made him cadi
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The first third of the Kstab ul-Maghdzi (one leaf missing) was published by A. von Kremer from a Damascus MS. (Calcutta, 1856). Sprenger in his Leben Muhammad's used a British Museum MS. containing the first half, all but one leaf . J. Wellhausen published an abridged German translation
Ascribed to Wagidi, but probably written at the time of the Crusades to incite the Moslems against the Christians, are several works on the conquests of Islam. One of the best known is the Futult ush-Sham, edited by W. Nassau Lees (Calcutta, 18541862; Cairo, 1865). M. J. de Goeje
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See ARABIA, Literature, section " History." (G. W. T.) End of Article: WAQIDI [Abu `Abdallah Mahommed ibn `Umar ul-Wagidi] (747-823) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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