Ibn Abi Tayyi (
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: إبن أبي طيء) Yaḥyā Abū Zakariyyā ibn Ḥamīd al-Najjār (1180–1228) was a
Shi'i historian and poet from
Aleppo
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Known for his ''Universal History,'' which is mostly lost, and is known to us through excerpts preserved by later writers. A valuable source for the history of Northern Syria in the times of the crusades, it also describes the
Fatimid palaces in
Cairo
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, the fall of the Fatimid dynasty, relations between
Franks and
Muslims, and the reign of
Saladin and that of his son
al-Ẓāhir Ghāzī.
He made use of a lost source also used by the anonymous author of the ''
Būstān al-jāmiʿ''.
[ Claude Cahen, "Une chronique syrienne du VIe/VIIe siècle: Le ''Bustān al-Jāmiʿ''", ''Bulletin d'études orientales'' 7/8 (1937/1938), 113–158. ]
References
People from Aleppo
1180 births
1228 deaths
Syrian poets
13th-century Syrian historians
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