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XXIV. Abbasid Administration in its Decay, from the Tajārib al-Umam
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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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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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
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(Tajārib al-Umam, v, 327–8).Google Scholar
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(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.