Ṣafī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā (Arabic: محمد بن علي بن طباطبا العلوي; 1262–1309), also known as Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, was a historian and naqib of Alids in Ḥilla.
[1] He was a direct descendant of Ḥasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Ṭalib.
According to E.G. Browne's English version of Mīrzā Muhammad b.
Around 1302 he wrote a popular compendium of Islamic history called al-Fakhri.
[2][3] According to the political scientist Vasileios Syros, the philosophy of ibn al-Ṭabāṭabā can be compared to that of Niccolò Machiavelli.