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Al- Tabari: Volume 2, The Son and Grandsons of al-Man sur: The Reigns of al-Mahdi, al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid - The Early 'Abbasi Empire (Paperback)
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Al- Tabari: Volume 2, The Son and Grandsons of al-Man sur: The Reigns of al-Mahdi, al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid - The Early 'Abbasi Empire (Paperback)
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This 1989 second volume of Professor Williams' translation of
al-Tabari's account of the early 'Abbasi empire focuses on the
reigns of the son - al-Mahdi - and grandsons - al-Hadi and Harun
al-Rashid - of Caliph al-Mansur, the subject of the first volume.
This was the 'Golden Prime' of the empire, before the civil war
between the sons of al-Rashid and the movement of the capital away
from Baghdad. Also considered is the story of the Persian
aristocratic family, the Barmakis, who became the real rulers under
the indolent al-Rashid, until he destroyed them in a rage which
astonished his contemporaries. The events are narrated through the
reminiscences of eyewitnesses, woven together by the great
historiographer al-Tabari (d. 923). The translator of the volume is
an Islamicist who has lived many years in the Arab world and has a
rare knowledge of its culture and literature.
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