Licit magic : the life and letters of al-Ṣaḥib born ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) /

Licit magic : the life and letters of al-Ṣaḥib born ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) /

In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib born ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and intellectual. His nearly two-decade reign as vizier on behalf of two Buyid amirs was an important...

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Main Author: Pomerantz, Maurice A.

Other Authors: Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, 936-995.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 146.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

Subjects:

Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, > 936-995.
Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, > 936-995 > Literary style.
Authors, Arab > Biography.
Viziers > Biography.

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Call Number: PJ7750.S26

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • An Introduction to Ibn ʿAbbād and His Letters
  • A Life in Politics
  • A Muʿtazilī Polymath
  • A Patron and Social Networker
  • A Letter Writer and His Letters
  • Sulṭāniyyāt: Governmental and Administrative Letters
  • Letters of Friendship (Ikhwāniyyāt)
  • Ibn ʿAbbād as Epistolographer
  • Conclusion
  • Translation of a Letter of Conquest
  • A Guide to the Extant Letters of Ibn ʿAbbād
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Arabic Terms
  • Index of Proper Names.