Al-Yamini (eBook)

Fi akhbar dawlat al-malik Yamin al-Dawla Abi 'l-Qasim Mahmud b. Nasir al-Dawla Abi Mansur Sabuktakin

Muhammad b. ?Abd al-Jabbar al-?Utbi (Autor)

Yusif al-Hadi (Herausgeber)

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2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-40498-4 (ISBN)

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uhammad b. ?Abd al-Jabbar al-?Utbi (d. 428/1037 or 431/1040) was a native of Rayy who, through family connections, had entered the administration of the Samanids in Nishapur, attaining the rank of postmaster there. After several intermediary engagements he entered the service of the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty Abu Mansur Sebuktigin (d. 387/997) and then, of his son Mahmud of Ghazna (d. 421/1030). From the time that al-?Utbi was sent as an envoy to Gharchistan in around 390/1000, there is a gap in his career until he offered his famous history of the Ghaznavids presented here to Mahmud-also called Yamin al-Dawla-in around 410-11/1020. Since he was rewarded with a postmastership in the relatively insignificant town of Ganj Rustaq-which he soon lost to intrigue-he must have written this Arabic work mainly as a means to securing a job. Early dynastic history, ornate style, invaluable source of information on the early Ghaznavids.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2020
• Sprache: arabisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• ISBN-10: 90-04-40498-8 / 9004404988
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-40498-4 / 9789004404984