Al-̣tabarī Volume 2, the Son and Grandsons of Al-Maṇsūr: The Reigns of Al-Mahdī, Al-Hādī And Hārūn Al-Ra

ISBN-13: 9780521159364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str.

Al-Tabar?; John Alden Williams

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This 1989 second volume of Professor Williams' translation of al-Tabar 's account of the early 'Abb s empire focuses on the reigns of the son - al-Mahd - and grandsons - al-Hadi and H r n al-Rash d - of Caliph al-Mans r, the subject of the first volume. This was the 'Golden Prime' of the empire, before the civil war between the sons of al-Rash d 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-Rash d, 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-Tabar (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."