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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

Iraqi historian (1262–1309)

Summary

Iraqi historian (1262–1309)

Field	Value
name	Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
birth_date	1262 CE
birth_place	Baghdad, Iraq
death_date	1309 CE
occupation	Historian, Naqib of Alids
notable_works	Al-Fakhri
era	Medieval Islamic period
main_interests	Islamic history, Political philosophy

Ṣafī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā (; 1262–1309), also known as Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, was a historian and naqib of Alids in Ḥilla.

He was a direct descendant of Ḥasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Ṭalib. According to E.G. Browne's English version of Mīrzā Muhammad b. ‛Abudi’l-Wahhāb-i—Qazwīni's edition of ‛Alā-ad-Dīn ‛Ata Malik-i-Juwaynī's Ta’rīhh-i-Jahān Gushā (London 1912, Luzac, p.ix), Ibn al-Tiqtaqā's name was Safiyu’d-Din Muhammad ibn ‛Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Tabātabā.

Around 1302 he wrote a popular compendium of Islamic history called al-Fakhri.al-Ṭiqṭaqā, Al-Fakhrî, Histoire des dynasties Musulmanes depuis la mort de Mahomet jusqu’a la chute du khalifat 'Abâsîde de Bagdâdz (11-656 de l'hégire = 632-1258 de J.-C.) avec des prolégomènes sur les principes du gouvernement, traduit par Émile Amar, Paris, Leroux, 1910. [En ligne] https://archive.org/details/alfakhrhistoir00muamuoft.

According to the political scientist Vasileios Syros, the philosophy of ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā can be compared to that of Niccolò Machiavelli.

References

Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. ii, (Leiden 1927, Brill), pp. 423–4.
Note by Professor H. A. R. Gibb, in Arnold J. Toynbee's A Study of History

References

Aigle, Denise. (2021-07-01). "Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā". Brill.
978-90-429-1299-1
Syros, Vasileios. (2018). "Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism". Edinburgh University Press.

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