History of Nations 2: From 300 B.C to 677 C.E

This is the translation of the first part in a sequence of books written by Imam Abd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abu 'l-Faras̲h̲ b. al-Jawzi, known as Ibn al-Jawzī. He was an Arab Muslim jurisconsult, preacher, orator, heresiographer, tradition-ist, historian, judge, hagiographer, and philologist who lived in Baghdad during the twelfth century. In this book, he collected what was known in his time about the nation's history. As the reader will note, this book focused first on parts more t...