Al-Suli's great-grandfather was the Turkish prince Sul-takin and his uncle the poet Ibrahim ibn al -' Abbas as-Suli.

Al-Suli's shatranj-playing ability became legendary and he is still considered one of the best Arab players of all time.

Subsequently other topics would be explored in films such as Omar Guetlato of Merzak Allouache ; this production, which has been a significant success, is a chronicle of the difficulties that can meet the urban youth.

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

Kalhana's metrical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, called the Rajatarangini, has been pronounced by Professor H. H. Wilson to be the only Sanskrit composition yet discovered to which the appellation " history " can with any propriety be applied.

This work is taken as a chronicle of the last and greatest of the persecutions, in spite of the moral point each anecdote has been arranged to tell.

Alan V. Murray, however, has argued that, at least for the accounts of Persia and the Turks in his chronicle, William relied on Biblical and earlier medieval legends rather than actual history, and his knowledge " may be less indicative of eastern ethnography than of western mythography.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

What happened there has been described in Peder Svart's chronicle, which can be described as a strongly biased heroic tale about Gustav Eriksson.

Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle Hydatius wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455.

Steven Muhlberger has subsequently pointed out for many of the events in his chronicle Hydatius are based on word of mouth, and many problems with his chronology " resulted from delays and distortions in the best information to which he had access "; the evidence of Hydatius is not as decisive as Oost believed in his article.

Callisthenes has been accompanying Alexander to write a chronicle of the campaign.

This Apollodorus has been mistakenly identified with Apollodorus of Athens ( born c. 180 BC ), a student of Aristarchus of Samothrace, mainly as it is known — from references in the minor scholia on Homer — that Apollodorus of Athens did leave a similar comprehensive repertory on mythology, in the form of a verse chronicle.

After Pirates Pryce has appeared in several large-scale productions, such as De-Lovely ( Pryce's second musical film ), a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called " Blow, Gabriel, Blow ", The Brothers Grimm, Pryce's third film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World, in which he had a cameo role as King James I.

Since nearly half a century lies between Wulfstan's death ( 1095 ) and John's final entry ( 1140 ), historian Simon Keynes has offered the tentative suggestion that Florence may have been the monk first commissioned by Wulfstan to compile material for a world chronicle and that John continued the task.

The work has been described as a family chronicle rather than a history, the object of which was the glorification of the house of Komnenos.

As a writer, he says he has no intention whatsoever of using his imagination ; rather, he wants to chronicle his present life, which in turn is fuelled by his most ambitious literary project so far, the completion of a trilogy entitled Countdown to Chaos.

French genealogist Christian Settipani has identified the source of this identification as the unreliable twelfth-century Chronicle of Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, which was interpolated into the chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines.

Cyril Mango has argued that Theophanes contributed but little to the chronicle that bears his name, and that the vast bulk of its contents are the work of Syncellus ; on this model, Theophanes main contribution was to cast Syncellus ' rough materials together in a unified form.

King Leir has been called a " chronicle history ," a " tragical history ," a " tragicomedy ," and even " a tragedy with a happy ending.

The monastery where he dwells has a confusing tangle of lightless corridors with disturbing frescoes that chronicle Leng's bloodcurdling history.

The Seder ' Olam Zuta, the chronicle of the exilarchs that is the most important and in many cases the only source of information concerning their succession, has also preserved chiefly the names of those scholars who had certain official relations with the respective exilarchs.

The chronicle, which was held in very high regard by contemporaries, goes down to 1146, and from this date until 1209 has been continued by Otto, abbot of St Blasius ( d. 1223 ).

The chronicle in question is anonymous, and Nau has shown that the note of a copyist, which was thought to assign it to the monk Joshua of Zuqnin near Amida ( Diyarbakir ), more probably refers to the compiler of the whole work in which it was incorporated.

The metrical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, called Rajatarangini, has ( erroneousy ) been pronounced by Professor H. I.

The term Little Russia has been used in Ukrainian chronicle by Samiylo Velychko, in a chronicle of the Hieromonk Leontiy ( Bobolinski ), in " Thesaurus " by Archimandrite Ioannikiy ( Golyatovsky ).

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

* July 7 – Florence of Worcester, long thought to be the author of the chronicle of John of Worcester

A biography of Conrad II in chronicle form, Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris, was written by his chaplain Wipo of Burgundy, and presented to Henry III in 1046, not long after the latter was crowned.

The first written document describing Japanese archery is the Chinese chronicle Weishu ( dated around 297 AD ), which tells how in the Japanese isles people use " a wooden bow that is short from the bottom and long from the top.

Some say it is interesting to note that all the other people mentioned in the chronicle are real and this argument is often offered as evidence for the historicity of Arthur, Merlin and Mordred ; however, given that the entries, or at least the insertion of the names of Arthur and Merlin, could have been added arbitrarily as late as 970, long after the development of the early Arthurian myth, it cannot be taken as a particularly conclusive argument.

He participated in the Spanish colonization of the Caribbean, and wrote a long chronicle of this project which is one of the few primary sources about it.

But in view of the fact that our city of Florence, daughter and offspring of Rome, was mounting and pursuing great purposes, while Rome was in its decline, I thought it proper to trace in this chronicle the origins of the city of Florence, so far as I have been able to recover them, and to relate the city's further development at greater length, and at the same time to give a brief account of events throughout the world as long as it please God, in the hope of whose favor I undertook the said enterprise rather than in reliance on my own poor wits.

Higden was the author of the Polychronicon, a long chronicle, one of several such works of universal history and theology.

James Madison ended his long chronicle of the Philadelphia Convention with the following, " The Constitution being signed by all the members present except Mr. Randolph, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Gerry, who declined giving it the sanction of their names, the Convention dissolved itself by an adjournment sine die.

According to a very old Kirat chronicle, Patan was founded by Kirat rulers long before the Licchavi rulers came into the political scene in Kathmandu Valley.

In his " Chronica novella ", German chronicle: de: Hermann Korner describes the vast, three day long burial ceremony involving King Eric VII, several noblemen, the Achbishop of Lund, and all of the Danish bishops.

There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony.

According to the earliest Russian chronicle, a Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler ( knyaz ) of Novgorod in about 860, before his successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev, which had been previously dominated by the Khazars.

" Roger was however mistaken ; he knew that an unnamed archbishop of Tyre was present and assumed it must have been the William whose chronicle he possessed, although the archbishop in question was actually William's successor Joscius.

However, there are only ten known manuscripts that contain the Latin chronicle, all of which come from France and England, so William's work may not have been very widely read in its original form.

Numerous monographs and published versions of the chronicle have been made, the earliest known being in 1767.

The Hailes Abbey chronicle indicates that John Botetourt may have been Edward's illegitimate son, however the claim is unsubstantiated.

The priory may have once been the residence of the monk Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was born around 1100 and is best known for writing the chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae (" History of the Kings of Britain ").

( It is unlikely to have been von Zimmern, since his manuscript chronicle was not discovered until 1776.

The chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, who died in 1018, could have been regarded as the only contemporary and unbiased account of events, if it were not for the fact that Thietmar's data could have been supplied by Svyatopolk himself during his brief exile at the Polish court.

A number of novels, novelizations and short-story collections have been written to chronicle events of the Dominion War outside of canon:

In a medieval chronicle " Ajayib-ad-Dunia ", written in the 13th century by an unknown author, Arran is said to have been 30 farsakhs ( 200 km ) in width, and 40 farsakhs ( 270 km ) in length.

According to the chronicle Erikskrönikan written in the early 1320s, Eric is said to have been partly lame.

In an incident described by the Itinerarium Peregrinorum ( which is generally hostile to Conrad ), the Old French Continuation and Sicardus of Cremona's second chronicle ( now known through quotations by Salimbene di Adam and Alberto Millioli ), Saladin presented Conrad's aged father, William V of Montferrat, who had been captured at Hattin, before the walls of the city.

However, this letter is believed to have been forged: Sinan was already dead, and apart from this letter and the chronicle entries based upon it, there is no other evidence for the Hashashin being involved in shipping.