At a glance
- Roles
- Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Marwan Hayyan ibn Khalaf ibn Husayn ibn Hayyan al-Qurtubi, an Andalusian historian from Córdoba (377–469 AH), author of al-Muqtabas (The Borrowed Fire) on the history of al-Andalus. 1
He may be the same person as Ibn Hayyan the Andalusian historian mentioned in Nafh al-Tib, but the data do not state this. It needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.396
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Hayyan, Abu Marwan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-hayyan-abu-marwan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.