@inbook{10.1525/j.ctt13x1gz8.29,
 ISBN = {9780520284937},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt13x1gz8.29},
 abstract = {This far from uplifting chronicle begins with the heading “The various afflictions that came upon the land in the year 1024 according to the reckoning of Alexander [712 C.E.] and those [afflictions that came] afterward.” Modern scholars most often refer to it by the shorter, ominous, albeit apt titleChronicle of Disasters.TheChronicle’s inventory of calamities begins with a comet’s appearance “when the kingdom of the Sons of Ishmael held power and its control stretched over the entire land, in the days of Walīd, son of Malik, son of Marwān, who reigned at that time.” One has to make},
 bookauthor = {Michael Philip Penn},
 booktitle = {When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam},
 edition = {1},
 pages = {191--195},
 publisher = {University of California Press},
 title = {Chronicle of Disasters},
 year = {2015}
}