Career
He was most likely born in Fatimid Egypt. He became a physician, but the anti-Christian pogroms of Caliph First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r 996–1021) forced him to flee to Byzantine-held Antioch. His chief work is a continuation of Eutychius" Annals, stretching from 938 to 1034.
Drawing on a variety of sources, his history deals with events in the Byzantine Empire, Egypt, as well as Bulgaria and the Kievan Rus".
He died ca. 1066.
His history was published, edited and translated into French in Volume 18 of the Patrologia Orientalis in 1928, and into Italian.