Kitāb al-Iklīl (Arabic: كتاب الإكليل) fully known as the Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar (Crowns from the Accounts of the Yemen and the genealogies of Ḥimyar), is a book about the ancient history of Yemen and the Himyarite Kingdom written by the 10th-century grammarian, chemist and historian Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.
[3] The historian Nabih Amin Faris compiled the four surviving volumes into an annotated work, al-Juz' al-Thamin, published in 1940 by Princeton University Press as part of the Princeton Oriental Texts collection.
[2] In 2020, a portion of the lost sixth volume was found in the archives of the Bavarian State Library in Munich and was published by a researcher in the Arabia Felix Academy.
[1] An abridged version of the texts has been made available under a Creative Commons license for reading in some online libraries.
[6] The eighth volume describes archaeological finds in Yemen and discusses the poetry of Dhu Jadan and Abu Karib.