Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī, Athīr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī b. Ḥayyān al-Nifzī al-Gharnāṭī (654–745/1256–1344), was a grammarian, poet and man of letters during Naṣrid rule in Granada (Gharnāṭa) and under the Mamlūks in Egypt. He was descended from the Berber tribe of Nifza (Ibn Ḥajar, 6/62). His father was an inhabitant of Jayyān (Jaén) (Ibn Ḥajar, 6/63), but he fle…