al-Fakhri fi l-Adab al-Sultaniyya wa-l-Duwal al-Islamiyya · Islam Museum

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

Summary

Ibn al-Tiqtaqa's history, composed at Mosul between Jumada II and Shawwal 701/1302 for Fakhr al-Din Isa ibn Ibrahim: a brief mirror for princes followed by lives of the caliphs down to al-Musta'sim, each with the lives of that caliph's viziers; edited by Ahlwardt (Gotha 1860) and Derenbourg (Paris 1895), with French and English translations ¹.

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Authored by: Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

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Birth of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa soon after the fall of Baghdad, c. 660/1262· Death of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, 709/1309· Ibn al-Tiqtaqa composes al-Fakhri at Mosul, 701/1302· The fall of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa's father in the struggle with the Juwayni brothers· Ibn al-Tiqtaqa's travels in Iraq and Adharbaydjan and his naqibate over the Alids· Mosul· Tabriz· Ibn al-Tiqtaqa

Sources

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

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Fakhri fi l-Adab al-Sultaniyya wa-l-Duwal al-Islamiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/al-fakhri-adab-sultaniyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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Birth of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa soon after the fall of Baghdad, c. 660/1262

Safi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Tabataba, known as Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, was born, it seems, shortly after the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 656/1258 — he does not mention witnessing it himself — and his line runs back to al-Hasan ibn Ali through Ibrahim al-Tabataba.