Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Jaznai

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

Ali al-Jaznai was born into the al-Jaznai family, a well known medieval Berber family, belonging to the Zenata Igzennayen (Jeznaya) tribe.^[2]

References

1. 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
2. Shatzmiller, Maya (1982). L'historiographie mérinide: Ibn Khaldūn et ses contemporains (in French). Brill Publishers. p. 30. ISBN 9004067590.

External links

• 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