Abdallah ibn Abi al-Shawarib
Abdallah ibn Abi al-Shawarib عبد الله بن أبي الشوارب | |
|---|---|
Al-Muti | |
| Succeeded by | Umar ibn Aktham |
| Personal | |
| Born | November/December c. 931 |
| Died | 1025/1027 |
| Religion | Islamic theology, Tawhid, Islamic jurisprudence |
Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Abi'l-Shawarib (
.Born in November/December 931,
He became chief
al-Muti, who refused to confirm him in his office or even meet him. It was the Buyid ruler, Mu'izz al-Dawla, who performed the investiture instead.[5] The appointment was broadly opposed, both by the populace and by scholarly opinion, and he was deposed after less than two years in office, in June 963. He was replaced by his immediate predecessor, Umar ibn Aktham, and all his judgements were pronounced void.[6]
The modern historian Heribert Busse regards the episode as "possibly the crassest example of venality" of the entire period, and remarks that the medieval historian al-Khatib al-Baghdadi did not deign to include a biography of Abdallah in his biographical dictionary on the history of Baghdad.[7] Abdallah died sometime in 1025–1027.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Busse 2004, p. 275.
- ^ Busse 2004, pp. 270, 271.
- ^ Busse 2004, pp. 270, 274, 275.
- ^ Busse 2004, p. 266.
- ^ Busse 2004, pp. 266–267.
- ^ Busse 2004, pp. 267, 275.
- ^ Busse 2004, p. 267 (esp. note 7).
Sources
- Busse, Heribert (2004) [1969]. Chalif und Grosskönig - Die Buyiden im Irak (945–1055) [Caliph and Great King – The Buyids in Iraq (945–1055)] (in German). Würzburg: Ergon Verlag. ISBN 3-89913-005-7.