Al-Baladhuri
Ahmad Ibn Yahya ibn Jabir al-Baladhuri | |
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Title | Al-Baladhuri |
Personal | |
Born | c. 820 Ansab al-Ashraf |
ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī (
His full name was Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Al-Baladhuri (
Biography
Al Baladhuri's ethnicity has been described as
He lived at the court of the
Works
His chief extant work a condensation of a longer history,
His history, in turn, was much used by later writers.
His discussions of the rise and fall of powerful dynasties provide a political moral. His commentaries on methodology are sparse, other than assertions of accuracy.[11]
See also
- List of Islamic scholars
References
- ^ Translation of Futuh al-Buldan by Hitti
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Balādhurī". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 233. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Salaam Knowledge
- ^ Answering-Ansar.org :: Fadak; The property of Fatima al-Zahra [as] Archived 2007-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 978-1-908433-12-1.
- ^ Bosworth, C. E. "BALĀḎORĪ". ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ISBN 0-415-05914-3.
Baladhuri was probably of Persian origin: he lived and wrote in Baghdad, and died in 892.
- ISBN 978-1107188518.
In the second half of the ninth century, an Iranian historian named Aḥmad b. Yaḥy āl-Balādhurī wrote The Conquests of the Lands, an Arabic history about the Islamic conquest of the Near East and the formation of the Caliphate.
- ^ Bos, Gerrit: " 'Baladhur' (Marking-Nut): A Popular Medieval Drug for Strengthening Memory", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1996), pp. 229-236 (full-text via JSTOR; article's first page available for all)
- ^ "Balādhurī, al-." Encyclopædia Britannica 2006.
- ^ "Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Yahya al- - Oxford Islamic Studies Online". www.oxfordislamicstudies.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
Further reading
- Bahramian, Ali; Esots, Janis; Asatryan, Mushegh (2015). "al-Balādhurī". In ISSN 1875-9831.
External links
- Media related to Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Al-Baladhuri at Wikiquote
- Al-Balādhurī, britannica.com
- Al-Balādhurī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1957). Futūḥ al-Buldān. Beirut: Dār al-Nashr li-al-Jāmi‘īyīn.
- Al-Balādhurī (1916). The Origins of the Islamic State: Translation with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān of al-Imâm abu-l'Abbâs Aḥmad ibn-Jâbir al-Balâdhuri. Vol. 1. Translated by Philip Khuri Hitti. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Al-Baladhuri (1924). The Origins Of The Islamic State. Vol. 2. Translated by Francis Clark Murgotten. New York: Columbia University Press.