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Al- Tabar: Volume 2, the Son and Grandsons of Al-Man S R: The Reigns of Al-Mahd, Al-H D and H R N Al-Rash D: The Early Abb S Empi

Al- Tabar: Volume 2, the Son and Grandsons of Al-Man S R: The Reigns of Al-Mahd, Al-H D and H R N Al-Rash D: The Early Abb S Empi

Williams, John Alden
Al-Tabar?

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521159369
ISBN13: 9780521159364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This 1989 second volume of Professor Williams' translation of al-Tabarī's account of the early 'Abbāsī empire focuses on the reigns of the son - al-Mahdī - and grandsons - al-Hadi and Hārūn al-Rashīd - of Caliph al-Mansūr, the subject of the first volume. This was the 'Golden Prime' of the empire, before the civil war between the sons of al-Rashīd and the movement of the capital away from Baghdad. Also considered is the story of the Persian aristocratic family, the Barmakis, who became the real rulers under the indolent al-Rashīd, until he destroyed them in a rage which astonished his contemporaries. The events are narrated through the reminiscences of eyewitnesses, woven together by the great historiographer al-Tabarī (d. 923). The translator of the volume is an Islamicist who has lived many years in the Arab world and has a rare knowledge of its culture and literature.

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