Al-Azimi

Al-Azimi was poet, schoolmaster, and an Arab Chronicler best known for his book the History of Aleppo (Cahen, 1938:354). Al-Azimi also wrote another book - Annals of the History of Syria (Al Muwassal 'ala al-Asl al-Mu'assal) which covers the years from 1063 - 1143/44 CE (wikipedia). Although al-Azimi lived in Aleppo, he is known to have made several trips to Damascus (Cahen, 1938:354). Hillenbrand (2000:51) notes that Al-Azimi’s chronicle [History of Aleppo] has survived in very fragmentary form and his work often looks like draft notes for (or from) a longer history.