Ibn al-Tiqtaqa composes al-Fakhri at Mosul, 701/1302

Name: Ibn al-Tiqtaqa composes al-Fakhri at Mosul, 701/1302
Location: Mosul

ابن الطقطقي يؤلف «الفخري» بالموصل سنة ٧٠١هـ

c. February 1302 CE · Jumada I 701 AH – c. June 1302 CE · Shawwal 701 AH

Between Jumada II and Shawwal 701 (February to early June 1302), during a stay in Mosul on the way to Tabriz, Ibn al-Tiqtaqa wrote his history al-Fakhri for Fakhr al-Din Isa ibn Ibrahim of Mosul: a brief Furstenspiegel followed by biographies of the caliphs down to al-Musta'sim, each followed by the biographies of that caliph's viziers, its anecdotal material skilfully chosen and its approach reflective rather than factual ¹.

Depth

At a glance

Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: Levant & Iraq

In time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Summary

Between Jumada II and Shawwal 701 (February to early June 1302), during a stay in Mosul on the way to Tabriz, Ibn al-Tiqtaqa wrote his history al-Fakhri for Fakhr al-Din Isa ibn Ibrahim of Mosul ¹.

Shape of the book

The work consists of a brief Furstenspiegel followed by biographies of the caliphs down to al-Musta'sim, each followed by the biographies of that caliph's viziers; its skilfully chosen anecdotes and reflective approach make it enjoyable and instructive to a degree uncommon in medieval scholarly historiography ¹.

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Had participant: Ibn al-Tiqtaqa· Fakhr al-Din Isa ibn Ibrahim
Occurred at: Mosul
During the reign of: al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

People and things also explored

Ibn al-Tiqtaqa· Mosul· Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Adud al-Dawla Seizes the Realm of the Banu Hamdan· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277

Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 988

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Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

Safi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Tabataba, known as Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, an Iraqi historian of Mosul whose line runs to al-Hasan ibn Ali through Ibrahim al-Tabataba; born, it seems, shortly after the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 656/1258. His father Taj al-Din Ali, chief naqib of the Alids, lost his life and property in political intrigue against the Juwayni brothers; the son too was a naqib of the Alids with more limited authority, and travelled widely in Iraq and Adharbaydjan. During a stay at Mosul on the way to Tabriz, between Jumada II and Shawwal 701 (February–early June 1302), he composed his history al-Fakhri fi l-Adab al-Sultaniyya for Fakhr al-Din Isa ibn Ibrahim — a brief mirror for princes followed by lives of the caliphs and their viziers down to al-Musta'sim. He died in 709/1309.