Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai () (who lived in the 14th century) was a Moroccan historian and author of ''Kitab Tarikh madinat Fas, al-maruf bi-Zahrat al-as fi bina madinat Fas'' or simply ''Zahrat al-As'' (''The Myrtle Flower''), an important source on the history of

Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...

in Morocco and its inhabitants.

Biography

Ali al-Jaznai was born into the al-Jaznai family, a well known medieval

Berber Berber or Berbers may refer to: Ethnic group * Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa * Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages Places * Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile People with the surname * Ady Berber (1913–196 ...

family, belonging to the zenata jaznaya tribe.

References

External links

* E. Levi-Provençal, Fondation de Fès, Fès-Alger, mars 193
Wikimazigh - Fondation de Fès
(retrieved 30 December 2013) * ''Zahrat al-As'', Abd al-Wahhab b. Mansur (ed.) 2nd edn. Rabat: Al-Matba'a al-Malikiyya, 1991 14th-century births 14th-century Berber people 14th-century Moroccan historians Berber historians Berber writers People from Fez, Morocco Year of death missing Zenata {{Morocco-writer-stub