Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
Born	1262 CE; Baghdad, Iraq
Died	1309 CE
Occupation(s)	Historian, Naqib of Alids
Academic work
Era	Medieval Islamic period
Main interests	Islamic history, Political philosophy
Notable works	Al-Fakhri

Ṣafī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā (Arabic: محمد بن علي بن طباطبا العلوي; 1262–1309), also known as Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, was a historian and naqib of Alids in Ḥilla.^[1]

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.^[2]^[3]

According to the political scientist Vasileios Syros, the philosophy of ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā can be compared to that of Niccolò Machiavelli.^[4]

References

^ Aigle, Denise (2021-07-01), "Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2022-02-07
^ Geert Jan van Gelder. The Classical Arabic Cannon of Polite (and Impolite) Literature. Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function, and Dynamics. Peeters Publishing, 2003, pp. 45– 58. ISBN 978-90-429-1299-1
^ 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.
^ Syros, Vasileios (2018). Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 165–80.

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

[1] Aigle, Denise (2021-07-01), "Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2022-02-07

[2] Geert Jan van Gelder. The Classical Arabic Cannon of Polite (and Impolite) Literature. Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function, and Dynamics. Peeters Publishing, 2003, pp. 45– 58. ISBN 978-90-429-1299-1

[3] -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.

[4] Syros, Vasileios (2018). Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 165–80.

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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
Born	1262 CE Baghdad, Iraq
Died	1309 CE
Occupation(s)	Historian, Naqib of Alids

Academic work
Era	Medieval Islamic period
Main interests	Islamic history, Political philosophy
Notable works	Al-Fakhri