Al-Jahshiyari
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī | |
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| Born | Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | 942 |
| Other names | Muhammad, Abu Abdallah |
| Occupation | Abbasid official |
| Years active | 908 – 940s |
| Known for | Author of Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab (Book of Viziers and Scribes). |
| Children | unknown |
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī (died 942) was a prominent Abbasid bureaucrat and scholar. He authored Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab (Book of Viziers and Scribes).
Life
Al-Jahshiyari was born in Kufa, a center of scholarship in the Islamic world.[1] He was called "al-Jahshiyari" after one of his father's employers, Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Jahshiyari, the hajib (grand chamberlain) of the Abbasid prince and commander-in-chief al-Muwaffaq (r. 870–891).[2]
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Al-Jahshiyari died in political obscurity in the Abbasid capital, Baghdad.[2]
Works
Al-Jahshiyari authored Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab (Book of Viziers and Scribes), a history of bureaucrats and administration. The book originally covered the period until 908 CE, but in its surviving form it ends with the reign of Caliph
References
- ^ a b c Stasolla 2012, p. 223.
- ^ a b Stasolla 2012, p. 226.
- ^ Osti 2013, p. 197.
- ^ a b Kennedy 2016, p. 217.
- ^ Stasolla 2012, pp. 223–224.
- ^ Stasolla 2012, p. 225.
- ^ Bray 2019, p. 286.
Bibliography
- Bray, Julia (2019). Stories of Piety and Prayer, Deliverance Follows Adversity: Al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-479855-96-4.
- Kennedy, Hugh (2016) [1981]. The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History (Reprint ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (original publisher: Croom Helm). ISBN 978-1-138-95321-5.
- Osti, Letizia (2013). "Culture, Education and the Court". In van Berkel, Maaike; El Cheikh, Nadia Maria; Kennedy, Hugh; Osti, Letizia (eds.). Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32). Leiden: Brill. pp. 187–214. ISBN 978-90-04-25271-4.
- Stasolla, Maria Giovanna (2012). "How a Tenth-Century Learned Man Reads History: Al-Jahshiyari and the Barmakids". Eurasian Studies. 10 (1–2): 221–23.