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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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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Askold and Dir (section Al-Masudi)
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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Umayyad Caliphate (redirect from Al-Ḫilāfat al-ʾumawiyya)
[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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"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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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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The Meadows of Gold (redirect from Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar)
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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century) (died 898 AD) Ithbat al-wasiyya (book) [Wikidata] by Al-Masudi (4th Century) (896 AD - 956 AD) 'Murūj aḏ-Ḏahab by Al-Masudi (4th Century) (896 AD -...
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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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notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Muhammad al-Idrisi. Islamic geography...
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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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Ibn Sa'd (redirect from Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir)
Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd (Arabic: ابن سعد) and nicknamed Scribe of Waqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was a scholar and...
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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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'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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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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Abu Mikhnaf (section Maqtal Al-Husayn)
Lut ibn Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Azdi (Arabic: لُوط بْن يَحْيَى بْن سَعِيد الأَزْدِيّ, romanized: Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-ʾAzdī; c. 689–773/775), commonly...
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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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Mount Judi (redirect from Al-Jūdiyy Al-Munzal Al-Mubārak)
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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exchange for the right to exercise their religious freedom, according to al-Masudi (Golden 2007b, p. 138). Olsson writes that there is no evidence for this...
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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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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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"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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but usually appeared female to lure on 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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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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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. 3 The Mapping of Power...
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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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Ibn Khaldun (redirect from Abdurahman bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Hasan bin Jabir bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Abdurahman bin Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami)
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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the kingdom is mentioned as Táfak (طافك). In 915 AD, the Arab historian Al-Masudi mentions it as at-Tákin, referring to the hills of the Punjab region....
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