Ibn Abi Tayyi (

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: إبن أبي طيء) Yaḥyā Abū Zakariyyā ibn Ḥamīd al-Najjār (1180–1228) was a Shi'i historian and poet from

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, the fall of the Fatimid dynasty, relations between

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, and the reign of

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and that of his son al-Ẓāhir Ghāzī. He made use of a lost source also used by the anonymous author of the ''

Būstān al-jāmiʿ ''Būstān al-jāmiʿ li-jamīʿ tawārīkh al-zamān'' ( ar, بستان الجامع لجميع تواريخ الزمان, , General Garden of All the Histories of the Ages). is an anonymous Arabic chronicle from Ayyubid Syria.Claude Cahen, "Une c ...

''. Claude Cahen, "Une chronique syrienne du VI^e/VII^e siècle: Le ''Bustān al-Jāmiʿ''", ''Bulletin d'études orientales'' 7/8 (1937/1938), 113–158.

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