Amr ibn Adi

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Amr ibn Adi ibn Nasr ibn Rabi'a (

Most of the details of his life are legendary and later inventions;[1] according to Charles Pellat, "as the historical reality of this personage and of the events [...] became blurred, legend made use of his name to fix the time of events displaced from their historical sequence, and of stories invented to explain proverbs which had become unintelligible".^[2]

According to the medieval Arab historians, Amr's father Adi gained the hand of Raqash, the favourite sister of the

Amr was doubtless a historical figure, but it is difficult to establish exact facts on his reign, other than that he lived in the later 3rd century (Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval suggested his reign as the period 268–288).^[2] The archaeological evidence supports his existence, but is contradictory: an inscription found at al-Namara names Amr and his son, but as clients of the Roman Empire rather than the Persians, whereas the Paikuli inscription indicates that Amr was a vassal of the Sassanid king Narseh (r. 293–302). The commonly accepted explanation is that Amr's son at some point defected to the Romans.^[1][6]

Manichaeism

Amr was the most prominent patron of Manichaeism,^[7] and he gave shelter to the religion and managed to convince Narseh to put an end to the persecution of the Manichaeans. However, the persecution of the Manichaeans was resumed after the death of Narseh and the Lakhmid kingdom resumed its support of the Manichaeans.^[8]

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References

Sources

• OCLC 495469456
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• Rothstein, Gustav (1899). Die Dynastie der Lahmiden in al-Hîra. Ein Versuch zur arabisch-persichen Geschichte zur Zeit der Sasaniden [The Dynasty of the Lakhmids at al-Hira. An Essay on Arab–Persian History at the Time of the Sasanids] (in German). Berlin: Reuther & Reichard.
• ISBN 0-88402-116-5
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• Turner, John P. (2010). "ʿAmr b. ʿAdī". In Fleet, Kate;
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