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XXIV. Abbasid Administration in its Decay, from the Tajārib al-Umam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

The first extract, “A,” from the text of the Tajārib al-Umam (Gibb Memorial facsimile, vol. vi, pp. 135—41), depicts the fiscal condition of the soil at the seat of the Caliphate at the date of the establishment there of Buwaihid ascendancy in a.h. 334. The passage appears in an abridged and rather inadequate form in the Kāmil of Ibn al-Athīr (viii, 342–3), and a comparison of the texts serves to show the value of the Tajārib original.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1913

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References

page 828 note 1 The MS. is catalogued as a part of Khaṭīb's work, but M. Amar has identified it as the Dhail of Ibn al-Najjār, , JA. 1908, vol. xi, 237.Google Scholar

page 829 note 1 (Tajārib al-Umam, v, 327–8).Google Scholar

page 833 note 1 (Paris Ar. 5986, 135b).

page 834 note 1 (Shujâ, Abu', Dhail, 401Google Scholar, as to which see ante, p. 737).Google Scholar

page 836 note 1 See also his life, Irskād al-Arīb, iii, 180Google Scholar, where the scene of his nomination is vividly depicted. It was foreshadowed by the jealousy of his predecessor, for whom he had acted as deputy; and Hamadhāni, in the MS. Paris Ar. 1469, tells how he vented it by causing food to be deliberately spilt over the deputy's costume, against which he used to have a change of raiment in readiness. The notice of al-Muhallabi in Ibn Khallikān, de SI. trans, i, 410, is very meagre.