At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · writer · Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu'l-Hajjaj al-Biyasi, one of the excellent memorisers of al-Andalus — of Biasa, a large town in Kurjiyan; a brilliant littérateur versed in every branch of Arab speech, verse and prose, and a transmitter of their campaigns, wars and days. 1
His memory and works
Ibn Khallikan reports that he had memorised the Kitab al-Hamasa, the diwan of al-Mutanabbi and the aphorisms of al-Zand; he moved through al-Andalus roaming most of it, and composed for the lord of Ifriqiya Kitab al-i'lam bi'l-hurub al-waqi'a fi sadr al-Islam in two volumes — beginning with the killing of 'Umar b. al-Khattab and ending with the revolt of al-Walid b. Tarif al-Shari against Harun al-Rashid; his Kitab al-hamasa is likewise in two volumes. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Tunis
People and things also explored
al-Zaytuna Mosque· Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi's break with the Almohads· Abu al-Hasan al-Marini's entry into Ifriqiya· The Recovery of Tunis from the Spanish· Abdelaziz Thâalbi
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 270-271
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-al-hajjaj-al-biyasi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.