About Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
Lived 1262 – 1309 (aged 46–47). Ibn al-Tiqtaqa was a historian, linguist, writer, researcher and critic.
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.
According to the political scientist Vasileios Syros, the philosophy of ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā can be compared to that of Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Iraqi historian (1262–1309)
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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa was born in 1262 in Mosul.
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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa died in 1309 in Mosul.
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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa was a historian, linguist, writer, researcher and critic.
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