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Sulayman al-Suwaykit

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Sulayman al-Suwaykit (Sulayman ibn Abd Allah al-Suwaykit) is a Saudi historian and academic specializing in early Islamic history and classical historiography .

Academic Career and Research

Sulayman ibn Abd Allah al-Suwaykit served as an associate professor in the Department of History within the College of Social Sciences at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh . In 1399 AH, he completed his master's thesis at the university on the history of the Kharijite movement during the Umayyad period, titled al-Khawarij fi al-Asr al-Umawi ("The Kharijites in the Umayyad Era") .

His scholarship focuses on the methodology of early Muslim chroniclers, military campaigns, and the reconstruction of lost classical historical texts. In 1407 AH (1986 CE), he published Manhaj al-Mas'udi fi Kitabat al-Tarikh ("al-Mas'udi's Methodology in Writing History"), examining the historiographical approach of al-Mas'udi . He also prepared an academic extraction titled Kitab al-Sawa'if (al-Mustakhraj), in which he assembled the scattered narrations belonging to the lost seasonal campaigns chronicle of Muhammad ibn A'idh al-Dimashqi (d. 233 AH) from Ibn Asakir's Tarikh Madinat Dimashq and organized them into a chronological narrative .

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List of Works

  • al-Sira al-Nabawiya inda al-Haythami fi Kitabihi Majma al-Zawaid wa Manba al-Fawaid

    This scholarly study examines the historical and hadith narrations concerning the biography of the Prophet Muhammad compiled in Nur al-Din al-Haythami's seminal work Majma' al-Zawa'id wa-Manba' al-Fawa'id. It focuses on the supplementary narrations gathered beyond the six canonical hadith collections, analyzing al-Haythami's methodology, chapter arrangement, and evaluation of transmission chains across the primary biographical sections of his compilation.

  • al-Hamla al-Akhira ala al-Qustantiniya fi al-Asr al-Umawi

    This historical study examines the final Umayyad military siege of Constantinople during the reign of Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. It investigates the massive land and sea offensive mobilized by the Umayyad Caliphate against the Byzantine capital, analyzing its strategic planning, execution, and ultimate failure alongside previous Umayyad campaigns and frontier operations.