translated into German, edited and annotated by David Heinrich Müller as Die Burgen und Schlösser Sudarabiens (Vienna, 1881). Other works said to have been written by al-Hamdani are listed in G. L. Flügel's Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862), pp. 220–221. List of works Kitab al-Jawharatayn al-ʻatīqatayn - A book describing metals known at that time, including their physical and chemical properties as well as treatment and processing (such as gold, silver, and steel). He is also considered one of the earliest Arabs who explained gravity of Earth in a way similar to magnetic field behavior. Sifat Jazirat ul-Arab (), Geography/Character of the Arabian Peninsula. Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar (); Crowns from the Accounts of al-Yemen and the genealogies of Ḥimyar. al-Iklīl consists of ten volumes. However, only four volumes have been found (Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.8 and Vol.10); the other volumes are missing. History of Sabaʾ. Language of Himyar and Najran. Notes and references Bibliography Britannica Nabih Amin Faris: The Antiquities of South Arabia being a Translation from the Arabic with Linguistic, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Eight Book of al-Hamdānī's al-Iklīl, Princeton, 1938 Yūsuf Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh (Hrsg.): Al-Hamdani. A great Yemeni Scholar. Studies on the Occasion of his Millenial Anniversary. Sanaa, 1986 Yūsuf Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh: al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-Hamdānī, In: Al-Mausūʿa al-Yamanīya, Sanaa, 2003, vol. 4, S. 3097ff. Yūsuf Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh: Die Personennamen in al-Hamdānī's al-Iklīl und ihre Parallel in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften, Dissertation, Universität Tübingen, 1975. Jörn Heise: Die Gründung Sana'as – Ein orientalisch-islamischer Mythos? Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, May 2010, (the fifth chapter is devoted to al-Hamdani's Biography ) O. Löfgren: Art. "al-Hamdānī" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition vol. III, S. 124a-125a. External links 890s births 945 deaths Year of birth uncertain 10th-century Arabs 10th-century astronomers 10th-century geographers 10th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate Arab grammarians Medieval grammarians of Arabic Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world Yemeni astronomers Geographers of the medieval Islamic world Yemeni geographers People from Sanaa Yemeni Muslims Yemeni historians Yemeni people who died in prison custody Yemeni writers Banu Hamdan