Hamza al-Isfahani

Hamza ibn al-Hasan [ibn] al-Mu'addib al-Isfahani (Arabic: حمزه الاصفهانی; c. 893 – after 961), commonly known as Hamza al-Isfahani (or Hamza Isfahani; حمزة الأصفهاني), was a Persian philologist and historian, who wrote in Arabic during the Buyid era. A Persian nationalist with strong prejudices against Arabs, he spent most of his life in his native town, Isfahan, and visited Baghdad three times during his lifetime. He had contact with many important scholars and historians, among them al-Tabari and Ibn Durayd. He wrote a history of Isfahan, a famous chronology of pre-Islamic and Islamic dynasties known as Taʾrīk̲h̲ sinī mulūk al-arḍ wa ’l-anbiyāʾ (تاریخ سنی ملوک الارض و الانبیا), and some other works on lexicography and poetry.