Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Wāqidī
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early Muslim historian and biographer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specializing in his military campaigns.
Books
The conquest of Syria, Persia, and Ægypt, by the Saracens
Collected from the most authentick Arabic authors. [Vol. I. being for the most part a free translation from al-Waqīdī's History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs, entitled Futūḥ al-Shām, with additions inserted from various other authors.] (Sentences of Ali, Son-in-law of Mahomet, and his fourth successor. Translated from an . . . Arabic Manuscript . . . by S. Ockley.).
Libri Wakedii de Mesopetamiae expugnatae historia
pars e codice ... arabico edita et annotatione illustrata. Qua scriptione ... ad orationem publicam audiendam invitat G. H. A. Ewald.
Incerti auctoris liber de expugnatione Memphidis et Alexandriæ vulgo adscriptus Abou Abdallæ Mohammedi Omari Filio Wakidæo, Medinensi
Textum arabicum . . . edidit et annotationem adjecit H. A. Hamaker.
The history of the Saracens
(An account of the Arabians or Saracens, of the life of Mahomet, and of the Mahometan Religion. [By Roger Long.]).
The history of the siege of Damascus by the Saracens in the year 633
as it is related by Abu Abdo’llah Mohammed Ebn Omar Alwákidi, the Arabian historian. Very useful for the readers and spectators of the Tragedy of the Siege of Damascus written by ... J. Hughes.