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{{Short description|Andalusian encyclopedist-biographer}}
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| death_date = 599 AH / 1202-3 AD
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| main_interests = [[al-Andalus]], [[historian]], [[Biographer]]
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'''Abū Ja'far Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad ibn 'Amirah al-Dhabbī''' ({{Langx|ar|أبو جعفر أحمد بن يحيى بن أحمد بن عميرة الضبيّ}}) an historian and [[encyclopedist]]-[[biographer]] of [[al-Andalus]] who lived at the end of the twelfth-century during the period of Islamic hegemony in [[Spain]].
==Biography==
What is known of the author's life is drawn from the text of his published work.
He says nothing about his country, but we believe that he was born in the village of Velez where he lived with his grandfather Ahmed, and that Ahmed ibn Abd 'l-Malik ibn Amirah was a cousin of Yahya, the author's father.
Adh-Dhabbi is believed to have spent most of his life in [[Murcia]] and [[Lorca, Spain|Lorca]]; where from fourteen years of age, he began his studies under Mohammad ibn Jafar ibn Ahmed ibn Hamid, who died in the year 586 AH.{{sfn|al-Ḍabbī|1884|p=vii}}
Adh-Dhabbi travelled to many regions of [[Spain]] and [[Africa]], visiting the cities of [[Ceuta]] in [[Spain]], and [[Alexandria]] in Egypt, where he found welcome among literary circles. {{sfn|al-Ḍabbī|1884|p=viii}} Along his travels he met the philologist [[Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili|Abd al-Ḥaqq el-Ishbīli]] in [[Béjaïa]], and fellow encyclopedist-biographer, [[Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī|Abu Ṭāhir Ibn 'Auf]] in Alexandria.{{sfn|Wüstenfeld|1882|p=98}}
==Works==
*''[[Bughyat al-multamis fī tārīkh rijāl ahl al-Andalus]]'' ({{lang|ar|بغية الملتمس فى تاريخ رجال اهل الاندلس ء}}); [[biographical dictionary|Biographic encyclopedia]] of Arab Spain. (ed. Codera y Zaidín, Francisco; Ribera, Julián; Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, 1884) ([[Cairo|al-Qāhirah]] Dār al-Kātib al-ʻArabī, 1967)
===Translations===
* ''[[Desiderium quaerentis historiam virorum populi Andalusiae]]'', ([[Latin]]) descriptions of the lives of famous men and women in Spain, with preceding history of the conquest and the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad Caliphs]], until the year 592 AH / 1196 AD. Anthology of works by: 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, called Ibn al-Farad; [[Ibn Umaira al-Dhabbi|Amad ibn Yaya, al-Dabb]]; Khalaf ibn Abd al-Malik, called Ibn Bashkuwl; Muammad ibn 'Abd Allah, called Ibn Al-Abbâr; Muhammad ibn Khair, al Andalus.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aben-Pascualis Assila|title=Dictionarum biographicum|publisher=Matriti, Rojas|journal=Bibliotheca Arabico-hispana|editor-last=Codera y Zaidín|editor-first=Francisco|series=Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library| place=[[Madrid|Majrīṭ]] |year=1883|volume=1-2|url=https://archive.org/details/bibliothecaarabi01code/}}</ref>
* ''De libro Desiderium quaerentis historiam hominum Andalusiae'' (Latin).
==See also==
*[[List of Arab scientists and scholars]]
*[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]]
==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite book|last=[[Ibn Umaira al-Dhabbi|al-Ḍabbī]]|first=Ibn Umaira|title=Bughyat al-multamis fī tārīkh rijāl ahl al-Andalus (Biographic encyclopedia of Arab Spain)|editor-last1=Codera y Zaidín|editor-first1=Francisco|editor-last2=Ribera|editor-first2=Julián|publisher=Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana|year=1884|place=Madrid|volume=III|language=ar, la |url=https://archive.org/details/bughyatalmultami00dabbuoft/page/n4}}
*{{cite book|last=[[Ibn Umaira al-Dhabbi|Al-Ḍabbī]]|first=Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad b. 'Amira|title=Bughyat al-multamis fī tārīkh rijāl ahl al-Andalus|place=[[Cairo|al-Qāhirah]]|publisher=Dār al-Kātib al-ʻArabī|year=1967|language=ar|series=Maktabah al-Andalusīyah|issue=6|volume=10|url=https://archive.org/details/FP149781/mode/1up}}
*{{cite book|last=[[Ibn Umaira al-Dhabbi|Al-Ḍabbī]]|first=Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad b. 'Amira|title=Bughyat al-multamis fī tārīkh rijāl ahl al-Andalus |year=1967| place=[[Cairo|al-Qāhirah]]|publisher=Dār al-Kātib al-ʻArabī|oclc=580808091 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/580808091}}
*{{cite book|last=[[Ferdinand Wüstenfeld|Wüstenfeld]] |first= F.| title= Die Geschichtschreiber der Araber und ihre Werke |place=[[Göttingen]] |year=1882|url=https://archive.org/details/diegeschichtschr01wsuoft/page/n113 }}
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