Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla
This is a study on the Arabic historical narratives of the ʿAbbāsid revolution and its aftermath that occurred in 747–755 CE. Its main focus is a medieval work on these events, called the Kitāb al-Dawla, composed by an Arabic Muslim collector and composer of historical narratives, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b...
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| description | This is a study on the Arabic historical narratives of the ʿAbbāsid revolution and its aftermath that occurred in 747–755 CE. Its main focus is a medieval work on these events, called the Kitāb al-Dawla, composed by an Arabic Muslim collector and composer of historical narratives, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī (d. c.228/842–843). The work is not extant, but its skeleton can be reconstructed on the basis of later quotations of it. Al-Madāʾinī’s Kitāb al-Dawla is an important source for the events of the the ʿAbbāsid revolution: since al-Madāʾinī was not directly sponsored by the ʿAbbāsid dynasty, he was not constrained to be a spokesperson for the ruling house’s propaganda needs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d765ac5a5f234dfcba42680c9586f40f2022-12-22T01:46:05ZengFinnish Oriental SocietyStudia Orientalia Electronica2323-52092017-05-01565150https://doi.org/10.23993/store.63285Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid DawlaIlkka Lindstedt0University of HelsinkiThis is a study on the Arabic historical narratives of the ʿAbbāsid revolution and its aftermath that occurred in 747–755 CE. Its main focus is a medieval work on these events, called the Kitāb al-Dawla, composed by an Arabic Muslim collector and composer of historical narratives, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī (d. c.228/842–843). The work is not extant, but its skeleton can be reconstructed on the basis of later quotations of it. Al-Madāʾinī’s Kitāb al-Dawla is an important source for the events of the the ʿAbbāsid revolution: since al-Madāʾinī was not directly sponsored by the ʿAbbāsid dynasty, he was not constrained to be a spokesperson for the ruling house’s propaganda needs.https://journal.fi/store/article/view/63285arabic historiographyislamic historyabbasid revolution |
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| title | Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla |
| title_full | Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla |
| title_fullStr | Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla |
| title_full_unstemmed | Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla |
| title_short | Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla |
| title_sort | al madaʾini and the narratives of the ʿabbasid dawla |
| topic | arabic historiography islamic history abbasid revolution |
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