Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

‘Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’, or the son of a chatterbox, was an onomatopoeic nickname for the Iraqi historian Jalāl-ad-Dīn Abu Ja’far Muhammad born Tāji’d-Dīn Abi’l-Hasan ’Ali, the spokesman of the Shi'a community in the Shi’ī holy cities—Hillah, Najaf, and Karbala; in an Iraq that was to remain the stronghold of Shi'ism, until the forcible conversion of Iran by Shah Ismail I Safavi.

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" (London1912, Luzac) , p.ix, Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’s name was Safiyu’d-Din Muhammad born ‛Ali born Muhammad born Tabātabā.

Around 1302 AD he wrote a popular compendium of Islamic history called "al-Fakhri" [Geert Jan van Gelder. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hpda9JwwAPYC&pg=PA50&dq=%22Ibn+al-Tiqtaqa%22&ei=XIfhSNz1F56ujgHGy6nnDg&sig=ACfU3U13SiTOaGg4tvyVYwg3QerInkNnGw "The Classical Arabic Cannon of Polite (and Impolite) Literature."] Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function, and Dynamics. Peeters Publishing, 2003, pp. 45– 58. ISBN-13: 9789042912991 ] .

External links

* [http://www.lib.umich.edu/help/ts/resources/eislam.html Encyclopedia of Islam] - only available to Authorized UM Users (Current University of Michigan faculty, students and staff)

References

*"Encyclopedia of Islam", vol. ii, (Leiden 1927, Brill) , pp. 423-4.
* [http://nobsnews.blogspot.com/1993/10/geneses-of-civilizations.html#gibb Note by Professor H. A. R. Gibb] , in Arnold J. Toynbee's "A Study of History"