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[email protected]. Abed el-Rahman Tayyara Origin Narratives and the Making of Dynastic History in al-Dīnawarī’s Akhbār Born of Iranian or Kurdish origin,1 Abū anīfa al-Dīnawarī (d. 895) was a multifaceted Muslim scholar, but only a few scant facts of his life are known to us. He was a prolific writer in various scholarly areas, but he is remembered in early Islamic biographical dictionaries primarily for his writings in astrology, Arabic grammar, and philology.2 Unfortunately, from the long list of works ascribed to al-Dīnawarī only two have survived: Kitāb al-nabāt (the Book of Plants), which reached us in fragmentary form, and al-Akhbār al- iwāl (Extended Narratives).