Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai () (who lived in the 14th century) was a Maghrebi 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),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 a source on the history of the city Fes (in today's 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.
References
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