The History of the Prophets and Kings (Arabic: تاريخ الرسل والملوك‎ Taarikh ar-Rusul wa al-Muluk), more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari (تاريخ الطبري) or Taarikh-i Tabari (Persian: تاریخ طبری‎) is an Arabic-language historical encyclopedia written by the Persian author and historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838-923). It begins with the Creation to 915 AD, and contains detail concerning Muslim and the Middle Eastern history. al-Sila, appendix or continuation, was written by Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, a Turkish student of al-Tabari (رحمه الله). Printed in six volumes by DKI.