Al-Bidaya_wa-l-Nihaya
al-Bidaya wa l-Nihaya
World history book based on Islamic themes
Al-Bidāya wa l-Nihāya (Arabic: البداية والنهاية, The Beginning and the End), sometimes also known as the Tārīkh Ibn Kathīr, is a work on Islamic history by the Sunni Muslim scholar Ibn Kathir (d. 1373).[1][2]