Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي الجزنائي) (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),[1] an important source on the history of Fes in Morocco and its inhabitants.
Biography
editAli al-Jaznai was born into the al-Jaznai family, a well known medieval Berber family, belonging to the Zenata Igzennayen (Jeznaya) tribe.[2]
References
edit- ^ French translation by Alfred Bel, Ali El Djaznai, La fleur du myrte, traitant de la fondation de la ville de Fès, Arabic text, with annotated translation, Algiers, Jules Carbonel, 1923
- ^ Shatzmiller, Maya (1982). L'historiographie mérinide: Ibn Khaldūn et ses contemporains (in French). Brill Publishers. p. 30. ISBN 9004067590.
External links
edit- E. Levi-Provençal, Fondation de Fès, Fès-Alger, mars 1939 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
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