Aḥmad al-Rāzī, full name Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Rāzī al-Kinānī, was a Muslim historian of Persian origin who wrote the first narrative history of Islamic rule in Spain.
Writers born in the 880s 3
About this person
Aḥmad al-Rāzī, full name Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Rāzī al-Kinānī, was a Muslim historian of Persian origin who wrote the first narrative history of Islamic rule in Spain. Later Muslim historians considered him the father of Islamic historiography in Spain and the first to provide a narrative framework rather than bare facts.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 887 to 955 · aged 68
Written about in
9 languages
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