Eutychius of Alexandria - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Simonsohn, Uriel
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Brill
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Saʿīd b. al-Baṭrīq (or al-Biṭrīq, although al-Baṭrīq meaning patrician seems more likely, 263-328/877-940), also known as Eutychius of Alexandria , was the Melkite patriarch of Alexandria and author of the historiographical treatise Kitāb naẓm al-jawhar , "The string of pearls," also known as Kitāb al-taʾrīkh al-majmūʿ ʿalā l-taḥqīq wa-l-taṣdīq , "The book of history, compiled through investigation and verification," or by its eleventh/seventeenth-century Latin title, the Annales . A native of al-Fusṭāt, Ibn al-Baṭrīq was appointed in 321/