Agapius of Hierapolis

Agapius of Hierapolis, also called Maḥbūb ibn Qusṭanṭīn (died after 942), was a Melkite Christian historian and the bishop of Manbij. He wrote a universal history in Arabic, the lengthy Kitāb al-ʿunwān ('book of the title'). He was a contemporary of the annalist Eutychius (Said al-Bitriq), also a Melkite.

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