Ibn Abi Tayyi (

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: إبن أبي طيء) Yaḥyā Abū Zakariyyā ibn Ḥamīd al-Najjār (1180–1228) was a

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historian and poet from

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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

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palaces in

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, the fall of the Fatimid dynasty, relations between

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and

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, and the reign of

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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 Claude Cahen (26 February 1909 – 18 November 1991) was a 20th-century French Marxist orientalist and historian. He specialized in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the Crusades, and social history of the medieval Isla ...

, "Une chronique syrienne du VI^e/VII^e siècle: Le ''Bustān al-Jāmiʿ''", ''Bulletin d'études orientales'' 7/8 (1937/1938), 113–158.

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