Mukhtaṣar tāʾrīkh al-bashar

…major works were a history, Mukhtaṣar tāʾrīkh al-bashar (“Brief History of Man”), spanning pre-Islāmic and Islāmic periods to 1329; and a geography, Taqwīm al-buldān (1321; “Locating the Lands”). Both works were compilations of other authors, arranged and added to by Abū al-Fidāʾ, rather than original treatises. Popular in their day…