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    al-Masʿūdī (full name Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), c. 896–956, was a historian, geographer...
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    2023, pp. 309, 449. Abbott 1946, pp. 149–50. al-Tabari & Bosworth 1989, pp. 327–28. Masudi 2013, p. 276. Masudi 2013, p. 94. Bobrick 2012, p. 45. Bobrick...
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    historian Al-Masudi. According to him, "king al-Dir [Dayr] was the first among the kings of the Slavs." Although some scholars have tried to prove that "al-Dir"...
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    until the deposition of al-Qahir, when he was freed and raised to the throne (24 April 934). The contemporary historian al-Masudi describes him as pleasing...
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  • ٱلْجَوْهَر, Murūj aḏ-Ḏahab wa-Maʿādin al-Jawhar) is a 10th century history book by an Abbasid scholar al-Masudi. Written in Arabic and encompassing the...
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    [citation needed] Even the earliest pro-Shia accounts of al-Masudi are more balanced. Al-Masudi's Ibn Hisham is the earliest Shia account of Muawiyah. He...
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  • Masudi or Masoodi may refer to: Al-Masudi (c. 896–956), Arab historian, geographer and traveler, Arab historian Masudi, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan...
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  • "residence of the Najashi". In a similar context, in his Akhbar al-zaman, the same al-Masudi calls the Ethiopian capital "Kufar" or "Kafer". In the Arabic...
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    notes of Al Masudi (Kamath 2001, p88) Kamath (2001), p88 Altekar (1934), p356 Altekar (1934), p354 Altekar (1934), p355 From notes of Periplus, Al Idrisi...
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    '258 years' was the generally accepted figure is however noted by al-Biruni and al-Masudi, with the latter specifically stating (in 943/944 AD) that "the...
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  • the works of al-Tabari, Ya'qubi, al-Masudi, and Ibn Khallikan. This popularity, however, has hampered the scholarly attempts to ascertain al-Sadiq's actual...
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  • years (until 957). Al-Masudi's account of the battle is "one of the greatest descriptions of the nomadic war tactics." Al-Masudi narrates an account...
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    to his time, and brief mentions by al-Masudi, Ibn al-Nadim and Ibn Hawqal. Said al-Andalusi wrote a biography of al-Farabi. Arabic biographers of the 12th–13th...
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    Upper Mesopotamia, at the headwaters of the Tigris River. Arab historian Al-Masudi (d. 956), reported that the spot where the ark came to rest could be seen...
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    with the ruins of the temple mentioned by the 10th-century geographer al-Masudi as being located c. one parasang from Istakhr. According to the Iranologist...
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  • and hold on reality. According to psychobiographical critics Daghir and Al Masudi, "Mad Girl's Love Song" uses the recurring themes of darkness, light,...
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    Arabic Literature". Masudi and the reign of Al-Amin. edited by Philip F. Kennedy. 2005. ISBN 9783447051828. El-Hibri, Tayeb (1999). "Al-Amīn: the challenge...
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  • historians al-Tabari and al-Masudi, who both lived under the Abbasids, do not consider the possibility of murder. In particular, al-Masudi writes that al-Rida...
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    بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī, Arabic: [ibn xalduːn]; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was...
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    "Nine Surnames" (OTrk 𐱃𐰸𐰆𐰔:𐰆𐰍𐰔 Toquz Oğuz); and another from al-Maṣudi's Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, which mentioned the three hordes of...
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  • Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (Arabic:...
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    Names for India (redirect from Al-Hind)
    1950 P. 177 Kitab Muruj Al-dahab Al-Masudi. El-Masudis Historical Encyclopaedia By 'Abu-l-Hasan 'Ali ibn al-Husain al-Masudi P. 187 Journal of Ancient...
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    Emperor Theodosius I and looted. Later authors, such as Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam (b. 803), Al-Masudi (b. 896) and Leo the African (b. 1494), report having seen Alexander's...
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    New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4. al-Masudi, The Meadows of Gold, The Abbasids, transl. Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone...
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    shape, but usually appeared female to lure male travelers to devour them. Al-Masudi reports that on his journey to Syria, Umar slew a ghoul with his sword...
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     20. Bobrick 2012, p. 26. Khiḍrī, Tārīkh-i khalāfat-i ʿabbāsīyān, p. 51 al-Masudi. The Meadows of Gold, The Abbasids. transl. Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone...
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    western Media and Atropatene. 10th century Muslim historian Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Masudi writes in his widely acclaimed historical book The Meadows of Gold...
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  • to Al Masudi, fire temples were to be found – the Madjus he says, venerate many fire temples in Iraq, Fars, Kirman, Sistan, Khurasan, Tabaristan, al Djibal...
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    Jesus in Islam (redirect from 'Isa Al-Masih)
    mentioned in Qisas al-anbiya ('Stories of the Prophets'), books composed over the centuries about pre-Islamic prophets and heroes. Al-Masudi wrote that Jesus...
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    in Mojmal al-tawarikh. Tabari's History is a book series in Arabic that is the main and essential source about Sasanian history. Al-Masudi's The Meadows...
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