• Abuʾl-Ṣaqr Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul (Arabic: أبو الصقر إسماعيل بن بلبل) (844/5–891) was a prominent official of the Abbasid Caliphate during the reign of al-Mu'tamid...
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  • included the governor Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir, Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid's minister the Persian Isma'il ibn Bulbul, and the politically influential...
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    al-Muwaffaq's secretary, Sulayman ibn Wahb. Ibn Wahb was soon disgraced and replaced as vizier by Isma'il ibn Bulbul. Real power however lay again with...
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  • regency of al-Muwaffaq. Both were protégés of the fellow Shi'ite Isma'il ibn Bulbul, who, after becoming vizier to both al-Mu'tamid and al-Muwaffaq in...
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    Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 814) Gu Yanlang, Chinese warlord and governor Isma'il ibn Bulbul, Abbasid official and vizier Mutimir of Serbia, ruler of Principality...
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    Al-Muwaffaq, suffering from gout, was clearly close to death; the vizier Isma'il ibn Bulbul and the city commander of Baghdad, Abu'l-Saqr, called al-Mu'tamid...
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  • mentioned by al-Tabari in 891, as secretary to the vizier Abu'l-Saqr Isma'il ibn Bulbul. The latter supported an abortive attempt to depose al-Muwaffaq and...
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    regency of al-Muwaffaq. Both were protégés of the fellow Shi'ite Isma'il ibn Bulbul, who, after becoming vizier to both al-Mu'tamid and al-Muwaffaq in...
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  • al-Muwaffaq and his personal secretaries (Sulayman ibn Wahb, Sa'id ibn Makhlad, and Isma'il ibn Bulbul) effectively ruled the Caliphate from Baghdad. What...
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  • Ubayd Allah ibn Sulayman (Arabic: عبيدالله بن سليمان) born in 840, was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate who served as vizier for ten years,...
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  • Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrah (Arabic: الحسن بن مخلد بن الجراح) was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate. Born a Nestorian Christian, he converted...
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    Library: an illustrated manuscript of the "Anonymous Histories of Shah Isma'il", Islamic Gallery Project, Asian Department Victoria & Albert Museum London...
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    elusive yet sharp mind, Rinchan later on in the same year, at the hands of Bulbul Shah, embraced Islam and adopted the title of Sultan Sadr'ud-Din, becoming...
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