A short Hafsid-era chronicle whose Almohad opening gives, in a few lines a reign, the succession of al-Mansur and al-Nasir, the Banu Ghaniya's seizure of Ifriqiya and its recovery, and the sending of Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs to Tunis, which the Hafsids counted as the start of their house. Derivative and three centuries late, but it is the Tunis view of 1200 and gives dates for Ifriqiya not always in the Marrakesh sources.
About this source
- Title
- Tarikh al-dawlatayn al-Muwahhidiyya wa-l-Hafsiyya
- Author
- al-Zarkashi (Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Lu'lu'i al-Zarkashi)
- Author's dates
- wrote in the 1490s; death date unknown
- Written
- about 1490 to 1495, at Tunis
- Language
- Arabic
- Covers
- the Almohads from Ibn Tumart and the Hafsids to 1489
- Kind
- Chronicle
Fagnan translated from the Tunis lithograph and three manuscripts. Library catalogues give the author's death as 1526, on no firm evidence.
Where to read it
Editions
- Tarikh al-dawlatayn (Tunis, 1872, lithograph); M. Madur (ed.), Tarikh al-dawlatayn (Tunis, 1966), Arabic (not freely online)
Translations
- E. Fagnan (tr.), Chronique des Almohades et des Hafçides attribuée à Zerkechi (Constantine, 1895), French
- The same, another Internet Archive copy