ʿAwāna b. al-Ḥakam al-Kalbī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sakly, Mondher
Leiden
Brill
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Diagram 1. Reconstruction of the genealogical tree of the family of ʿAwāna according to Ibn al-Kalbī, Nasab Maʿadd wa-l-Yaman , 2:382, and Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿArab , 458-9. ʿAwāna b. al-Ḥakam b. ʿAwāna al-Kalbī was an Akhbārī (author or collector of reports and narratives of historical, biographical, or anecdotal nature) historiographer of the second/eighth century and a member of a large family of scholars from Kufa and Wāsiṭ. He was born perhaps before the year 90/708 and died perhaps in 147/