Jona Lendering has a ten-post blog series on that recently-discovered Arabic translation of a Syriac world chronicle, whose Syriac original seems to have been composed arond 700 CE. Jona's introductory post collects a lot of interesting information. The posts are in Dutch, but if you don't know Dutch, Google Translate is your friend.
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