Ibn Zafar
12th-century Arab-Sicilian philosopher and politician · Academics · Lived 1104 to c. 1170
Hujjat al-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, commonly known simply as Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, was a philosopher, polymath and Arab-Sicilian politician of the Norman period, and has come to be known in the West as "Niccolò Machiavelli's Arab Precursor".
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Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1104 to c. 1170
