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IBN HISHAM [See also:Abu Mahommed 'Abdulmalik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub ul-Himyari] (d. 834) , Arabian biographer, studied in Kuf a but lived afterwards in Fostat (old See also:Cairo), where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of See also:language and See also:history. His See also:chief See also:work is his edition of Ibn Ishaq's (q.v.) See also:Life of the Apostle of See also:God, which has been edited by F. Wiistenfeld (See also:Gottingen, 1858–186o). An abridged See also:German See also:translation has been made by G. Weil (See also:Stuttgart, 1864; cf. P. Bronnle, See also:Die Conzmentatoren See also:des Ibn Ishaq and ihre Scholien, See also:Halle, 1895)., Ibn Hisham is said to have written a work explaining the difficult words which occur in poems on the life of the Apostle, and another on the genealogies of the Himyarites and their princes. (G. W.

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